Vain used in a sentence

Vain in a sentence as an adjective

Until you can answer that, it's all in vain.

We lost our home and we've been trying, in vain, to find a new one ever since.

... Im not vain enough to think its my snappy prose that drew the visitors.

I search in vain for a browser whose "view in desktop mode" actually works.

This is what prosecutors call "deterrence".Sign the petition if you don't want Aaron's death to be in vain.

I've been reading as many Nexus 7 reviews as I can in a vain effort to sedate my excitement for its arrival later this month.

And if I even help one nerd change his life for the better by nudging him in the right direction, the past hour Ive spent writing this post will not have been in vain.

Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed is really a giant personality-defining display for vain people.

Another point to bear in mind is that us programmers can be a vain lot and since it is possible to be highly successful in software very early in your career.

" Everyone seems to think they're the Ayn Rand hero amongst the idiots, when in reality, the rebels and the intellectually vain are easily co-opted politically.

Well, the body-conscious, vain, generally out-of-shape American public routinely submits to electronic strip searches to get onto airplanes.

In the same vain I responded to Shanley's post: this is missing one type of engineer that is common in our field:* Average Engineer - Creates complex problems in response to simple problems...This is where the desire for rockstars / 10x engineers comes from.

I continue to hold out this vain hope that Intellectual Ventures is an elaborate satire, an effort by some smart technologists to demonstrate how broken the US patent system is by exploiting it in such a comically villainous fashion.