Examples of use of futile attempt
1. Because it is a futile attempt and is impossible.
2. He had stripped to his boxer shorts in a futile attempt to prevent dogs from detecting his scent, Lyons said.
3. "What is important is that we don‘t make a futile attempt to prevent people from crossing borders.
4. "The only cause of POW Cammayo's safety being imperiled emanates from the 10th Infantry Division's futile attempt to mount a rescue operation," he said.
5. In what was probably a futile attempt to block the decree, the Brotherhood introduced its own proposal on Monday that would limit the postponement to six months.