How to Use futility in a Sentence

futility

noun

• After more than two decades of losing, that futility may soon come to an end.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2020
• In the present-day comic and all throughout our run, there’s a futility to being Batman.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• In some ways, grooming trails is a Hail Mary and an exercise in futility.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2020
• But the futility of the current situation fuels Barr and those holding the line to support her cause.
  — Major Garrett, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2024
• One more intervention, despite the futility of all the others?
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
• Thucydides describes the futility of any human response: Appeals to the gods and the work of doctors – who died in droves – were equally useless.
  — Joel Christensen, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2020
• The bottom line: After Johnson's 10 days of futility, look for the Senate's patience to run out fast.
  — Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
• One moment in which a supporting character explodes into bloody chunks is almost reptilian in its excessive force and futility.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2020
• The show does emphasize the futility of her choices: black cops still get killed by white supremacists, Dr. Manhattan dies anyway.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• Obviously, in Rob’s case, this is a story of bleakness, despair, the utter futility of existence and taking a cheese-grater to the soul, but the rest of us don’t have to be like that.
  — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
• But the season postmortem once again points to futility, instability and uncertainty.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 June 2020
• In the predawn dark, Magdy Gamal sat in the bridge of the Mosaed 2 and stared up at an iron wall of futility.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Jets’ record of futility is, in fact, a matter of record.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• The futility of that ballclub is what sparked the rebuild that’s led to now.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• Being on the wrong end of a 40-point run was an NCAA record for futility.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• The guards were clearly trying to make sense of the team’s futility.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2024
• The Rapids might not set historic marks for futility in terms of points earned.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The job-changing trend has revived a debate about the futility of the rat race.
  — Zixu Wang, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Rather than giving in to a sense of futility, ask for help.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2020
• Change takes time, though not winning a statewide race since 1994 is a long record of futility.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Jorge Soler will put an end to that streak of futility in 2024.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• But how? Bryant filed a grievance against the Cubs over his service-time issue and lost the case, proving the futility of the process.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2020
• The Browns, after years of futility, reached the playoffs last season and even won a game there.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2021
• Both are franchise records for futility and were set in this game.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2020
• But the Phillies’ futility stands out as a mini-slump at the worst possible time.
  — Photographs By Doug Mills, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and tragically dies, to make a point about the futility of the American Dream.
  — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2020
• Oakland has not endured such a streak of futility against one team in more than a decade.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
• The program’s problems run deeper than its decade-long run of futility on the court.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• First of all, there’s the eye-popping futility in shot-making.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
• But hanging over the narrative is a sense of futility, that this can and will happen again and again.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024