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Sentence examples for vain from high-quality English sources.
“Merkel is not vain—still.
Vain patience to heap and hoard.
In vain, in vain!
Few things are more beautiful than vain hope.
“You think you are not a vain person.
They’re also waiting in vain, period.
But I do have to admit, I am incredibly vain.
He prayed, he wept, he sorrowed, but all in vain.
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Restaurants and shops advertise in vain for staff.
All was vain; and he lost two hours in his attempts, which were at last utterly useless.
“Chattering, foolish, vain—vain, foolish, and chattering, are the monkeys.
Ministers must now act swiftly to show the victims that their efforts have not been in vain.
Groups have campaigned, mostly in vain, for tighter industry regulations, reparations, and for better health services.
This oration once read, in vain shall we study, in vain shall we toil, in vain strain every nerve.
“I’m vain enough to have a Google alert for my name, so I’ve been aware of the white-supremacist Jason Kessler for a while,” Jason B.
The deaths of the Croppies killed on Vinegar Hill has therefore not been in vain, a spirit of resistance has grown from their sacrifice.
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In opera legend, a master class is a vehicle for a domineering personality to tell vain stories and stomp out vain hopes.
In vain did Franz endeavor to forget the many perplexing thoughts which assailed him; in vain did he court the refreshment of sleep.
Montel was a middle-aged gentleman whose vain ambition and desire for the past twenty years had been to fill the void which Monsieur Lebrun's taking off had left in the Lebrun household.
And generally all vain-glorious men, (unlesse they be withall timorous,) are subject to Anger; as being more prone than others to interpret for contempt, the ordinary liberty of conversation: And there are few Crimes that may not be produced by Anger.
vain
adj all
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
adj all
- unproductive of success
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On this page, there are 20 sentence examples for vain. They are all from high-quality sources and constantly processed by lengusa's machine learning routines.
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- • 6 sentence examples for vain from The New Yorker
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - Ulysses by James Joyce
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from New York Times
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
- • 2 sentence examples for vain from BBC
- • 2 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from The Guardian
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from Wired.co.uk
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
- • 1 sentence examples for vain from GutenbergBooks - Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
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There are 10 relevant lexical connections:
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is egotistic
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is conceited
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is self-conceited
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is egotistical
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is swollen-headed
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is swollen
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is bootless
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is sleeveless
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is futile
- • Relevant word or phrase for vain is fruitless
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