futility
Example Sentences
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Futility is one of the hardest things for cinema to convey.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
Futility doesn’t go quite as far as it used to.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022
Futility might be an understatement when it comes to Davis' last few years.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 8, 2019
Futility and despair are still my default settings in life.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2018
Futility, doom, became a smell in the air, pervasive and acrid as the dead smell after a forest fire—my scent and the world’s, the scent of trees, rocks, waterways wherever I went.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Vocabulary lists containing futility
Born a Crime
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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