futile search

Synonyms

snipe hunt

Examples

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. John Perry Barlow

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. Blaise Pascal

Words in the phrase

futile search

Close letter words and terms

futile hope futile mail futile pursuit futilely futileness futilitarian