lost cause

Example Sentences

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Booth’s passions included fine clothing, Southern honor, good manners, beautiful women, and the romance of lost causes.

From Literature

But the police often write off these neighborhoods as enemy territory or lost causes.

From New York Times

Mr. Neely is a new teacher, so he’s still all optimistic and stuff, but personally I think this assignment’s a lost cause.

From Literature

Yet even after moving to England with her husband and children to escape the stigma of association, she embarks on her own lost cause to redeem the family name.

From Washington Post

But in the end, she said, it's better to get something done than to keep arguing about a mostly lost cause.

From Salon