futile attempt's Usage Examples:

In the chapter Nitrogen of his memoir The Periodic Table, Primo Levi tells of his futile attempt to make alloxan for a cosmetics manufacturer who has read that it can cause permanent reddening of the lips.

for his young pupils and "the bashful spirit which sent him mute and inglorious from the pulpit when he rose there with the futile attempt to preach God"s.

Between the two world wars, the government made a futile attempt to turn this hamlet into a settlement of 120 households.

By rejecting what he saw as the Devil's Choice of surrendering to save his own life, Jamethon saw a way to end the conflict by sacrificing himself in a futile attempt to assassinate a vastly superior Dorsai officer.

After a second futile attempt to take the Confederate position by two Union brigades, Miles attacked again with his entire force in mid-afternoon and overwhelmed the Confederates, starting with the collapse of the brigade of Brig.

After futile attempts to convince Shiva, the enraged Sati transforms into the Mahavidyas.

In the 1955 Indianapolis 500, he stopped his car in a futile attempt to help Bill Vukovich when Vukovich"s car crashed and burned during.

with a sensitive young Canadian liaison officer posted to his ship, who quixotically dies in a futile attempt to shield an injured kitten from an attacking.

After a couple of futile attempts they managed to chip some pieces off it.

Cory makes several futile attempts to communicate with it.

The Junta made a half-hearted and futile attempt to defend the capital, and on the 4 December a devastating French artillery barrage brought the Spanish defence to grief.

army rapidly through Western Russia in a futile attempt to destroy the retreating Russian Army of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, winning just the Battle.

Isfahan and escaped south to Shiraz to rebuild his army in an ultimately futile attempt to reverse his fortunes.

Synonyms:

fling, seeking, contribution, squeeze play, endeavor, stab, test, pass, struggle, takeover attempt, go, activity, best, share, part, essay, foray, liberation, shot, play, offer, whirl, striving, endeavour, battle, nisus, pains, trial, run, mug's game, effort, try, squeeze, crack, strain, worst, batting, power play, bid,

Antonyms:

best, worst, inactivity, be born, survive,