How to Use futility in a Sentence

futility

noun

• Both are franchise records for futility and were set in this game.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2020
• Trust in humanity dissolves, leaving a sense of futility in its wake.
  — Suzan Song, STAT, 19 Dec. 2020
• Being on the wrong end of a 40-point run was an NCAA record for futility.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• Something in this household has broken, and any attempt at life afterward will feel, for a long while, like an exercise in futility.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
• Born in a circus-like atmosphere, this is the futility of reality.
  — William A. Virchis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020
• The president was then impeached for an unprecedented second time, an act that seemed to only highlight its own futility.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• Despite a wretched offense that has put immense pressure on the other end of the floor, the Cavs are still in the top spot following back-to-back years of futility.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
• Bonds’ and Clemens’ annual, nominal gains make this feel like an exercise in futility, one that will come to a close in 2022.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
• Although Baird’s poet whips himself into a frenzy of blood lust in the pulse-pounding climax, the play isn’t about the glory of war but its brutality and futility.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• However, the point will have been made about the futility, not to say the idiocy, of age denial.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• This went on forever, the slow creep of futility spreading over the event like a blanket.
  — Tom Scharpling, Vulture, 12 July 2021
• The thought of this filled me with a sense of futility: my robot could take on any topic, fill any assignment.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• What’s on her mind these days is the freedom of second acts, the power of forgiveness and the futility of judgment.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• The Volunteers are trying to end two decades of futility in Gainesville.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• The randomness of teams week-to-week and play-to-play make predictions a practice in futility.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2022
• But her downbeat tone laid bare the sense of futility felt by Western leaders about Afghanistan.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024