vainness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.

"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

He forbids it, Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent Quite from himself to God.

From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William

It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider