1. An old dog barks not in vain. 

2. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 

3. We searched in vain for the missing child.

4. Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.

5. I tried in vain to start a conversation.

6. They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.

7. He tried in vain to bring his temper under control.

8. We tried in vain to make him change his mind.

9. A seemingly endless line of trucks waits in vain to load up.

10. They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain.

11. Their lives have not been laid down in vain.

12. Doctors battled in vain to save his life.

13. They waited in vain for a response.

14. All our efforts were in vain.

15. All our work was in vain.

16. Police searched in vain for the missing gunman.

17. She waited in vain for her son to return.

18. They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.

19. John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.

20. They tried in vain to persuade her to go.

21. All his father's exhortations were in vain.

22. Have you been taking my name in vain ?

23. They tried in vain to open the locked door.

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25. They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.

26. Have you been taking my name in vain again?

27. I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.

28. All the police's efforts to find him were in vain.

29. All efforts to reconcile her with her husband were in vain.

30. He wants the world to know his son did not die in vain.

1. Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.

2. I tried in vain to start a conversation.

3. They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.

4. He tried in vain to bring his temper under control.

5. A seemingly endless line of trucks waits in vain to load up.

6. John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.

7. I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.

31. He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened.

32. He stopped at the door, waiting in vain for her to acknowledge his presence.

33. Who's been taking my name in vain?I don't hold such an opinion.

34. They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.

35. The swindler tried to baffle him out of his money, but in vain.

36. How dare you take the Lord's name in vain ?

37. Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.

38. She attempted in vain to introduce some order into the classroom.

39. In vain he tried to free the rope around his hands.

40. It was in vain that we tried to find his mother.

41. He tried to cover up his mistakes but in vain.

42. Altman swore that his son's death would not be in vain.

43. She tried in vain to point out to him the unfairness of his actions.

44. She and a neighbour tried in vain to revive him.

45. She tried in vain to point out to him the unfairness of the situation.

46. He looked in vain for the source of his unease.

47. The police tried in vain to break up the protest crowds.

48. Day after day she waited in vain for him to telephone her.

49. Pollsters have searched in vain for pockets of disloyalty.

50. Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche 

51. Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. Bob Marley 

52. But you will wait in vain if you want to learn anything more detailed about tornadoes, floods, hurricanes or blizzards.

53. In vain she struggled to regain control of herself, but it was too late.

54. Sweet is true love that is given in vain,[http://] and sweet is death that takes away pain. Alfred Tennyson 

55. And they can travel down to the job centre - in vain.

56. Jaq looked in vain through a lens for identification marks, badges, or names.

57. But that achievement would be in vain, unless they could reestablish communication with Earth.

58. He tries in vain to blag my laminate off me.

59. It took a great deal of courage to admit that all her efforts had been in vain.

60. Suddenly he felt an uneven tug, the string went slack, and he realized that his efforts had been in vain.

61. This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they're waiting in vain.

62. What of Isleifr's white bear, uselessly rampant in Goslar, while Isleifr waited in vain for his summons to consecration?

63. Doctors tried in vain to save him but he died just before dawn.

64. Congress delegates waited in vain for the congratulatory telegram from Moscow when the new party was formed.

65. In vain I tried to persuade friends that even without glasses it was possible to experience the phenomenon.

66. Sam stood guard over his blood-covered friend and tried in vain to flag down passing motorists.

67. Later, it tried in vain to conquer the whole of the subcontinent.

68. Before the offensive began he had tried in vain to impress this upon his superiors.

69. The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer - unfortunately, we don't.

70. Those dealing with heart disease have looked for such clean-cut results in vain.

71. He wraps around himself the dusty patchwork cloak of his invisibility and the heralds gallop hither and yon in vain.

72. If people don't learn from this, then his suffering and death were in vain.

73. The court heard a harrowing 999 tape of the boy, then 10, as he tried in vain to stop the killing.

74. In 1562 and again in 1566 the Privy Council urged Elizabeth in vain to marry and secure the succession.

75. Many princes and rich men try in vain to amuse her.

76. In vain he hoped to carve out an alternative career as a journalist and cricket writer.

77. One looks in vain for any evidence of soul-searching among the legal clan.

78. Children, also, carrying their bundles and striving in vain to keep up with their seniors.

79. Rain and pain never go in vain! They are just tests before we see gain. RVM 

80. Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January.

81. They looked in vain for a nook that held the batteries.

82. Those who set the monstrosity of globalisation in train seek in vain to dissociate themselves from the effects of their actions.

83. Twice Cantona stole into position at the far post waiting in vain for crosses.

84. Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens 

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85. Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction.

86. In vain did he protest that he was here on holiday and nothing else.

87. After trying in vain to rouse it, she stuffed it back in her pocket.

88. The next morning Archer scoured the town in vain for more yellow roses.

89. They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty.

90. Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out.

91. Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard, wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage.

92. For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.

93. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Kurt Vonnegut 

94. They tried in vain to buy off the opposition.

95. He tried to console herm but in vain.

96. She tried in vain to push through the crowd.

97. Hullo ! Who's that, taking my name in vain?

98. Her counterpart left in vain and vapidity.

99. In vain I tried to keep back my tears.

100. We tried in vain to fix up their difference.

101. They tried to rally pound sterling but in vain.

102. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.

103. He tried in vain to push through the crowd.

104. I tried to chuff her up in vain.

105. In making that plea he will breathe in vain.

106. Is fingernail what to vitamin lack in vain very?

107. I agree. Colonel Harding's efforts should not have been In vain.

108. Ergonomics experts have warned about laptop problems for years -- mostly in vain.

109. V : The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain.

110. The nephew looked at him in vain, in passing on to the door.

111. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain. The straggler paid no attention to the summons.

112. But the two - toed tree toad tried in vain.

113. I tried to fight off the desire to sleep , but in vain.

114. That does not make monuments sacrosanct (you will search in vain for a German military cemetery with a swastika).

115. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain ; the straggler paid no attention to the summons.

116. Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song,[Sentence dictionary] so at last he turned to parody.

117. But the two - toed tree toad tried in vain . He couldn't please her whim.

118. Do not want drift along, let days sneak away in vain run.

119. It became obvious that all her complaints were in vain.

120. After resorting in vain to screwdrivers and pliers, I decided to call a locksmith shop.

121. Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails.

122. When tea was over, Mr. Hurst reminded his sister - in - law of the card - table -- but in vain.

123. Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain - To thy high requiem become a sod.

124. The autocrat strove in vain to deal with the situation.

125. The kitchen chose a tiling of Roman, saying is tiling is mixed in vain only actually ash is dichromatic .

126. From the age of two, a friend of mine went with his mother every month to the Abu Salim prison, hoping in vain to see his father, who was imprisoned there.

127. However, Nicaragua went on its own way and let the Carter administration's efforts in vain.

128. Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

129. This incident drives me home to the point that however much preparationary work you have done in other times, an incident or emergency can make all your efforts in vain .

130. All efforts of mediation by the third side were in vain at all.

131. Don't dawdle away your time, or the young head will soon turn white. Then it will be in vain for you to moan and mourn for this.

132. It was in vain that I asked her for her family name.

133. Calls to the florist were always in vain - it was a cash purchase.

134. Bring menarche of the menstruation after how long in vain?

135. But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.

136. Bird - hunters will crave me in vain , For I roam the limitless sky .

137. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

138. We tried everything to make the ramrod guard move, but all in vain.

139. Stowe tried every means to pull his business through, but all in vain.

140. He proposed to himself to achieve what hitherto he had been promised in vain.

141. That is long term lop come, color must resemble the hair of the grandma in vain.

142. The climber tried in vain to make a grad at the rope.

143. In vain the various actors tried to win the favour of the great stage Sultan.

144. There the impotent,[] painted deities paraded on the walls in vain.

145. Cardiac massage was tried but ( it was tried ) all in vain.

146. All efforts of mediation by a third party were in vain at all.

147. University of Pennsylvania : Laws without character are in vain.

148. The only verdict is vengeance a vendetta held as a votive not in vain.

149. You will try , try in vain to repeat windfall gain.

150. It is in vain an unbeliever to take up the outward show of another man's profession.