Use of vainly in Sentences. 29 Examples
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vainly at the start of sentence
- Vainly the artillery of the Federals tore great gaps and paths through this torrent of men....
vainly at the end of sentence
- He, too, ten years ago, had piously sought out a tomb, and sought it vainly.
vainly in the middle of sentence
- He sought vainly for the answer.
- He tried vainly to make them listen.
- We tried vainly to discover what had happened.
- Never let the honey-sweet wine go vainly past!
- The enemy vainly attempted destroying the bridge.
- The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.
- A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity.
- The instructor struggled vainly to open his parachute.
- She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply.
- He hunted vainly through his pockets for a piece of paper.
- I vainly tried to record it on my Dictaphone, at the match.
- The criminals vainly sought concealment from the searchlight.
- He shouted after them, vainly trying to attract their attention.
- The glowing stream searched vainly in the darkness behind us and stopped.
- The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him.
- He then set out for Virginia for what he vainly hoped would be a peaceful retirement.
- The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
- Encased in iron lungs, tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.
- He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
- We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
- The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions.
- In another style of book, the source code just lays there as a dead mass, with the prose vainly trying to vivify it.
- The hapless governor, who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan's authority, was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801.
- North of Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, farmers vainly attempted to throw up earthen dikes to keep ripening crops safe.
- After trying vainly to turn himself into an English gentleman, he was initiated into Hindu philosophy by a Russian Theosophist.
- Science vainly struggles to keep up, offering hypotheses implicating all manner of causes and suggesting all manner of effects.
- I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.
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