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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(sentencedict.com), 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.