How to Use futility in a Sentence

futility

noun

• 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
• Which speaks to the utter futility of choosing not to have published the emails.
  — Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
• 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 Wolves were outscored by 18, a backbreaking run of offensive futility that cost the team the game.
  — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
• 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
• After more than two decades of losing, that futility may soon come to an end.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2020
• However, the point will have been made about the futility, not to say the idiocy, of age denial.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• So years of football futility in these parts can only be blamed on one thing.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Taking the long view of history, at least within the world of Dune, if not our own, also reveals a certain amount of futility.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025