"Dances With Wolves" is not a vain endeavor for a first-time director.

My uncle once contrived to get his head close to mine after several almost vain endeavors.

"We'll have to get Eradicate and his mule, I guess," said Tom, after a vain endeavor to make progress against the wind.

After a vain endeavor to rally the shattered ranks the Confederate officers gave up the attempt and sought the cover of the woods.

Any attempts to figure out de Kooning's "real" attitude toward women through his art (a vain endeavor, surely) must take both sets of images into account.

So all this time hanging around Giaccomo's and even venturing into Barducci's had been vain endeavor!

After several vain endeavours to clear his character he emigrated to Barbados, where he purchased a hotel and also taught in a school.

This was Mr. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but vain endeavour to find a better one.

After a hurried and vain endeavor to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.

Remain the records of their vain endeavour, (Lines 25-28)