vainly in English

adverb

in a vain manner; futilely, uselessly; conceitedly

Use "vainly" in a sentence

1. He sought vainly for the answer.

2. The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.

3. The instructor struggled vainly to open his parachute.

4. The enemy vainly attempted destroying the bridge.

5. He tried vainly to make them listen.

6. The criminals vainly sought concealment from the searchlight.

7. We tried vainly to discover what had happened.

8. 8 The instructor struggled vainly to open his parachute.

9. Never let the honey-sweet wine go vainly past!

10. A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity.

11. He hunted vainly through his pockets for a piece of paper.

12. 3 The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.

13. She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply.

14. He shouted after them, vainly trying to attract their attention.

15. The glowing stream searched vainly in the darkness behind us and stopped.

16. He then set out for Virginia for what he vainly hoped would be a peaceful retirement.

17. The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him.

18. He, too, ten years ago, had piously sought out a tomb, and sought it vainly.

19. The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.

20. Vainly the artillery of the Federals tore great gaps and paths through this torrent of men....

21. Nelson, riding in front with the Bashful driver, vainly sought to engage him in conversation

22. All the just ideals for which mankind has vainly struggled until now will be fully attained.

23. We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.

24. The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions.

25. Science vainly struggles to keep up, offering hypotheses implicating all manner of causes and suggesting all manner of effects.

26. He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.

27. 9 The hapless governor, who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan's authority, was beheaded by the janissaries in 180

28. After trying vainly to turn himself into an English gentleman, he was initiated into Hindu philosophy by a Russian Theosophist.

29. To keep from being publicly known the governor vainly tried to Cover up the growing scandal Synonyms for cover (up)

30. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ear, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.

31. In another style of book, the source code just lays there as a dead mass, with the prose vainly trying to vivify it.

32. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.

33. Graceful vainly endeavored to recall him to life; then, Bemoaning his fate, he fastened him with a pin to his hat like a cockade

34. He lingered in the folly of despair about those sordid lodgings in Diisseldorf, as one might circle vainly about the spot in the ocean where some pearl of great price had fallen overboard.

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36. Abstinence implies the willful avoidance of pleasures, especially of food and drink, thought to be harmful or self-indulgent: "I vainly reminded him of his protracted Abstinence from food" (Emily Brontë).

37. It Anathematizes also Manichaeus with his followers, who, thinking vainly that the Son of God had assumed not a true but an ephemeral body, entirely do away with the truth of the humanity in Christ

38. Cicero, in full Marcus Tullius Cicero, (born 106 bce, Arpinum, Latium [now Arpino, Italy]—died December 7, 43 bce, Formiae, Latium [now Formia]), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in …

39. Robinson made rendezvous with the destroyers of section 3 to the north of Hibuson Island after her torpedo attack, and vainly attempted to rescue the many Japanese survivors who refused all efforts to save them.

40. Hozuki’s Coolheadedness is the only anime I saw whole, more than once I’ve been searching for more anime online like this since watching and researching it, vainly… The amount of details and little aspects of the anime that you can find years and years later is absolutely amazing

41. For my new book, Sevastopol’s Wars: The Crimea from Potemkin to Putin, I have vainly tried to find an authoritative reference to the oft-cited quotation, “Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle,” or “the foul baboonery of Bolshevism,” usually noted for early or mid-February 1919.It is not contained in his famous Bolshevik Menace speech of 11 April 1919, published in Robert Rhodes