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"Vain" in a Sentence (19 examples)
All my haste was in vain.
We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
All our efforts were in vain.
All the doctor's efforts were in vain and the man soon died.
Dick tried to solve the problem, in vain.
I tried in vain to open it.
The old lady will often wait for her son in vain at the station.
The boy tried to move the heavy sofa in vain.
The boy made vain efforts to reach the shore.
All my pains were in vain.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
I will not hear thy vain excuse
Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
vain toil a vain attempt
Vain is the force of man / To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
At our old pastimes in the hall We gambol’d, making vain pretence Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all.
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
Yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land with imitating Fools: / VVho random dravvings from your ſheets ſhall take, / And of one beauty many blunders make; / Load ſome vain Church with old Theatric State, / Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate, […]
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