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    vain


    1. that, there is nothing you do spiritually that is in vain,


    2. Deut: 32:47: For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days


    3. forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the


    4. You should be on my side, you've gone over to the natives, I'm trying to at least retain peaceful contact with them, not wall ourselves in some enclave or set out on a vain mission to rescue the motherland


    5. “Not again,” Henry said as he lifted up the paper and got a napkin, trying in vain to wipe the jam off the paper and succeeding only in smearing it around even more


    6. We are not in this world to passively drift with the tides of ever changing events, to aggressively fulfill useless desires in a vain attempt to express limited personal powers


    7. Empty scrawls and letters punctured into their soft, vain flesh by lazy, fat monks willing to sell their souls for a few dollars


    8. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do


    9. the city, the watchman waketh but in vain


    10. My still damp jeans and shorts lay at the foot of the bed and I put them in the bucket in a vain attempt to confine their ill-humours

    11. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    12. Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party


    13. I try to make her change her mind, assuring her that I have been in this cafeteria before, that the environment is alright, that there is no danger -in vain: Helen remains as solid as a rock


    14. I appreciated his attempt to cheer me up at this hard time -but it was in vain: I was still feeling miserable, as if all the whole world were falling apart before me


    15. Even though I searched for her, it was always in vain


    16. Paul wrote, “We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain” ( 2 Corinthians


    17. He tries yet again to reach out to the man, then to Grace and his brother, but it's all in vain


    18. Yet I tried again, in vain; my gun was nothing but a burden now and I threw it down in dismay


    19. Shells: Full shells indicate success, provided that you work hard for it; empty shells bode vain hopes and loss of money


    20. Wall: If it stands in you way, it means obstacles and vain hopes; if you jump over it, success and victory await you

    21. I am all those moments when the poor creatures realise that everything is in vain


    22. into the barn but all was in vain


    23. calling a name in vain hope of command


    24. Nowadays, looking good is not any more a factor of being vain but is already considered


    25. ‘Then it is up to us to ensure that his life was not in vain


    26. She was juggling in vain with a pile of parcels and bags that seemed have a life of its own


    27. Your work has not been in vain, Lintze


    28. ’ I said, trying to reproduce his exact words ‘But that it would not be in vain … or something like that


    29. "Does it bother you that I'm so vain?" she asked


    30. Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains

    31. Their love was born of hope and that hope always took the form of imagined blue lines and smiling doctors, but their loving was in vain


    32. the home, where he constantly battled with the carers in a vain


    33. “Sisters!” She cried out in her pain, “My sisters, you have not died in vain!” She moaned loudly and twisted about


    34. “I like you Captain Alexei,” she told him on their journey to Aura, “true, you have a vain and swaggering style, but you also have a sharp mind


    35. that the intellect has struggled with in vain


    36. He looked at Mya; I am not being vain Mya


    37. and smiling doctors, but their loving was in vain


    38. For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends


    39. She tried in vain to move her right arm and willed herself to stop the screaming and move away from the car


    40. They made months of attempts to get in but in vain

    41. ‘Then I have waited in vain


    42. There were any number of people in any number of apartment trees around this yacht basin who could certainly watch them, but Bethai was impossibly vain about her breasts and probably loved to have the public watch her get them exercised


    43. a vain attempt to stem the flow of blood


    44. The birds sing in vain


    45. They saw her leave, they heard the news that my pleas were in vain


    46. Again, she crawled to a near halt but her fears were all in vain


    47. that this was a vain hope, but he kept his reservations to


    48. Heather tried in vain to pull free


    49. Confused, he had gone to the arrivals area and then tried to correct his mistake in vain; linguistic difficulties sealed his fate


    50. open in the vain hope that our minds would find













































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    Synonyms for "vain"

    bootless fruitless futile sleeveless vain conceited egotistic egotistical self-conceited swollen swollen-headed arrogant vainglorious inflated proud narcissistic unavailing unfruitful nugatory worthless inefficient

    "vain" definitions

    characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance


    unproductive of success