Wondering how to use Futility in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as uselessness.
Futility in a sentence
Futility meaning
- The quality of being futile or useless.
- Something, especially an act, that is futile.
- Unimportance.
Synonyms of Futility
Using Futility
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being futile or useless. | Something, especially an act, that is futile. | Unimportance.
- Useful related words include: inutility, uselessness, unusefulness.
- In the example corpus, futility often appears in combinations such as: the futility, futility of, in futility.
Context around Futility
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Futility
- In this selection, "futility" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, early, drafting, trend, thesis and meant stand out and add context to how "futility" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include exercise in futility and about the futility of grudges. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "futility" sits close to words such as admiring, aerosol and angolan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with futility
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This shows the futility of net zero. (7 words)
Yet, history has shown that questioning Tesla’s outlook ends in futility. (12 words)
It is a task herculean in its absurdity, Sisyphean in its futility! (12 words)
A meaningful armistice that secures Ukraine’s well-earned sovereignty will be achieved only if Ukraine deals the invading forces a series of decisive blows that impress upon them the futility of continuing their misguided war. (36 words)
The two U.S. Navy warplanes that would send the to her watery grave and ensure the futility of her suicide mission were the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber. (36 words)
The futility thesis holds that attempts at political change will ultimately amount to nothing, because the policy fails to appreciate that it is attempting to alter fundamental aspects of society. (30 words)
It is a task herculean in its absurdity, Sisyphean in its futility! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Basic material prices are subject to so many determining factors that accurately predicting their future levels becomes an exercise in futility.
By 1983, tired of what they deemed the futility of non-violent protests, nascent armed Tamil groups were beginning to engage in attacks against the state.
Few movies drive home the futility of war quite as well as The Bridge on the River Kwai does.
I guess can you remind us at the 475 patient interim analysis, these rolling interims tested for early futility and early success.
It’s a touching story about the futility of grudges, the impossibility of escaping one’s past, and the cruelest aspects of industrialization.
It was as if the entire country had become one big TSA security line, both a constant advertisement of danger and a ludicrous exercise in futility.
Maybe Jaxon Smith-Njigba breaks that 13 yr 1st round drafting futility trend.
Never have anxiety and consideration of life’s futility been so goddamn fun.
The futility thesis holds that attempts at political change will ultimately amount to nothing, because the policy fails to appreciate that it is attempting to alter fundamental aspects of society.
They are merely a Sisyphean mirage of futility meant to strengthen your tolerance for stupidity as you fall in line with the real world.
Yet, history has shown that questioning Tesla’s outlook ends in futility.
A love letter to both the futility of thinking that your words will endure, and the awesome possibility that a book may be a bid for immortality.
A meaningful armistice that secures Ukraine’s well-earned sovereignty will be achieved only if Ukraine deals the invading forces a series of decisive blows that impress upon them the futility of continuing their misguided war.
But constantly chasing one big idea seems to be an exercise in futility.
For the anorexic patient, any conclusions about “futility” would have to be based on fuzzier judgments about how a treatment might affect her quality of life.
It also kind of shows the futility, I think, of this, line of attack.
It is a task herculean in its absurdity, Sisyphean in its futility!
The two U.S. Navy warplanes that would send the to her watery grave and ensure the futility of her suicide mission were the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.
This confrontation reinforced the perception that the Code of Conduct is an exercise in futility or a demonstration of Asean’s normative powerlessness.
This shows the futility of net zero.
Common combinations with futility
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the futility 49×
- futility of 43×
- in futility 23×
- of futility 10×
- futility and 8×
- futility the 4×
- and futility 4×
- its futility 2×
- for futility 2×
- futility in 2×