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Sentence Examples The gods are dispassionate, jealous, vainly superior, and sometimes unfair and bitter. He vainly affects a George Raft hairdo and would-be virile gestures that go soft before they are half over. Men were vainly attempting to worship angels as emanations from God in a step-ladder effort to reach God. As Confederates tried vainly to delay Union advances on Chancellorsville, General Jackson took a bullet in the arm. She sought any work she could get, including temporary jobs in a clerical pool, while vainly applying for arts fellowships. After a chance encounter in a cafe ends up in a brief liaison, he tries vainly to track her down. People whose tenor of life is godless often imagine vainly that they will have time to take care of the end when it comes. As I was sitting there, seeing senior retreat leaders come in, I vainly prayed you would be one of them. I can only vainly aspire to ever possessing a fraction of the skills of Proust or Fitzgerald. He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy. She vainly tried to justify the over-salted, over-larded red meat dishes she prepares for her children. Or is it the way that British nationals were left to their own devices while vainly trying to summon help from local embassies? Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light. The few games created for a threesome vainly searching for a fourth tend to be unexciting and overly dependent on luck. As they rode, Miri's horse sidled sideways nervously away from Amniteri, and Miri tried vainly to rein him in. My eyes snapped open and I sat up, trying vainly to fight off the bleariness of sleep. I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most. Instead, you stand meekly, wearing your most hopeful expression, vainly attempting to read the seating plan upside down. He had the image of himself, like a goblin or ghost, haunting her gravesite for weeks, vainly trying to protect her. An explosion of pain blinded me as I reeled and staggered, trying vainly to catch my balance. Show More Sentences His black wings flapped vainly in the wind and water as they tried to regain the precious equilibrium of balance. The taxi driver took a look around, tried vainly to make peace, did not like what he was seeing, leapt back in his taxi, and skedaddled. The woman cranks away vainly at a machine that looks prehistoric but the man thinks faster. He spares nothing to obtain the honour of serving them, and he vainly boasts of his own meanness. In the 1950s, she was vainly hanging on to her former glamour-girl image. We had, vainly and absurdly, tried to unroll the garden hose. Gabrielle lay motionless on the ground, curled up in a ball, vainly trying to stop the ponding, flashes and sharp jabs of pain coming from all over her body, it seemed. Then there's the result of the French referendum on the European constitution, seen as thick-headed Luddites railing vainly against the modern world. One of the reasons Hollywood has always liked sword-and-sandal epics is that it has vainly seen itself in the lascivious, bacchanalian lifestyle of the rich and Roman. Truth be told, the hope of destroying the rubes by ignoring them vainly ignores the most inescapable fact of our lives. The old bulls sensed the cnunbling of their position and vainly tried to placate the reformers. As Hudson vainly tried to save Lopez, the Honda roared away on just the wheel rims. Can we justify manicures and tasteful highlights when others are vainly looking for work? It was more sensed than seen, a darker blot in the gale-lashed dark, and he frowned and raised one hand, trying vainly to shield his eyes in an effort to see better. He vainly tries to protect an absconding teenager from the police. Hollywood nymphets cower in the jungle, vainly trying to hide their voluptuousness from James Brown as he looms in the background, poised for another brush with the law. We chatted inconsequently, watching the kids screaming around the church basement gym while the junior scout leaders vainly tried to impose some semblance of order. Diane had picked up Shannon from school just before the twister touched down in a park a block away and she had vainly tried to outrun the howling funnel cloud. Her activism was derided as ideologically dilettantish from an actress encased within the Hollywood system and vainly seeking authenticity through scattergun sloganeering. I began to try and vainly struggle, tears running down my cheeks and leaving a black trail like discoloured blood as my eyeliner dissolved with the salty solution. Show More Sentences Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness. I have the laggardly reflexes of a sleep-deprived 42-year-old who needs but vainly refuses to purchase eyeglasses. The swallows that inhabit the falls to this day vainly search for her. It sliced through shields and swords vainly raised in an attempt to parry an unparryable blow as if it were light, yet when it struck, it was hard as forged iron. Examples from Classical Literature After struggling vainly to continue the war, Vercingetorix surrendered, and the Gallic chieftains laid down their arms. John groped vainly in mental depths for other experiences likely to illuminate this. In passing and repassing it that evening, Rowena had vainly ransacked her guileful brain for an excuse to invade it. Cashley, the fleet paymaster, was vainly endeavouring to get up a four at auction bridge. The tableau of a father vainly coddling a colicky babe certainly does not call for our enthusiasm. For nearly twenty years Venezuela had vainly appealed to the United States, asking that the dispute be arbitrated. Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas. This demoness is believed to suffer more pain than it inflicts, and vainly endeavours to destroy herself. I pled with him vainly for an explanation of the Prince's objection to my person. The doctors had vainly tried every remedy, iodine, blistering, and cauterising. The officials were vainly striving to quiet the tumult so they could award the prize. That was said not vainly or presumptuously, but in reproof of sycophantic courtiers. Stiff old steeds vainly essayed a nimbler gait, but gave it up in a few rods, and fell back to the steady jog. She lay on her back, struggling vainly to extricate her foot from the stirrup. Bengali baboos vainly petitioned the British government to pass the bill in all its integrity. As a matter of fact, we should seek vainly for proof of any attempt to Frenchify the country at the time. Subsequently, I learnt that this was the third year he had vainly attempted to matriculate. At the oars was a youth vainly trying to look brave while at the stern a grizzled riverman dragged a grappling iron. He vainly strives to rally under the fire of imprecation, but it is too late. Vainly did gride bemoan the loss of the money he had hoped to gain, and vainly did Ralph Nickleby, with curses, try to prevent. Show More Sentences Stung to madness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to fling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate effort. The parson tried vainly to struggle out of his bewilderment. He wished vainly that he had turlough's cunning brain to aid him now. Again, in the seventh, Danny achieved the diabolical inside uppercut.Through the eighth round his opponent strove vainly to repeat the uppercut. Perhaps here she found the repose hitherto so vainly sought. The most serious ones were in the head, and I vainly tried to close them with one hand, while holding on with the other. The animal was vainly trying with his trunk to disengage himself from the rope that attached him to the car. The fee that he had vainly refused still lay in its little white paper covering on the table. Had the opportunity which she had been vainly plotting to produce actually offered itself to her of its own accord? Ribaut vainly called on the adelantado to remember his oath. So have I seen a bird with clipped wing, making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks. Haredale searched vainly next day for Emma and Dolly Varden. Don Estevan vainly sought for an aim for his double-barrelled piece. The chair was placed, and Miss Lucindy essayed to climb, but vainly. He was vainly entreated not to expose himself to the infection. They saw the eyes of the Hun bulge in horror as he vainly struck with his futile hands against the massive chest and head of his assailant. He did honour to the grilled chicken to which he had vainly tempted Sophy. I've had many a laugh at her perplexities and untold troubles, which she vainly strove to hide from my mockery. Lonely and sleepless I think of my thankless Master, and vainly would Cradle my sorrow. The newcomer vainly strove to move his icebound jaws and jowls. Show More Sentences By his side Ike sat, vainly wondering who had shot the man and why. They were Maud's hands, striving vainly to tear loose the hand that was throttling me. The whole sketch stood before him in letters of fire, and in such blaze of illumination he sought vainly for nastiness. In the drawer behind her at that moment lay two new nightdresses that Milly for months had been vainly urging her mother to wear. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly. The onslaught of the foeman to repel By might of arm all vainly did they try, And when at length 'twas left them but to die, Wearied and few the last defenders fell. For a week the sun was obscured by heavy clouds, while violent rain and wind storms obliterated the last remnants of the spoor Tarzan constantly though vainly sought. Tempted and friendless, self-abandoned to the evil impulse of the moment, this woman may have committed herself headlong to the act which she now vainly repents. A heavy sigh, which she tried vainly to repress, burst from her lips. Gathergold had turned out to be the prophetic personage so long and vainly looked for, and that his visage was the perfect and undeniable similitude of the Great Stone Face. Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride, And vainly proceeded to cite A number of cases, in which making laces Had been proved an infringement of right. He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct. He led the retreat, holding Saxon's arm, and Bert, giggling and jubilant, brought up the rear with an indignant Mary who protested vainly in his unheeding ears. Charlotte, who was practical without ability, knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thickness and size. All 'dention, said the old black, with both hands placed as desired, vainly wriggling his grizzled head, as if to get both ears in front at one and the same time. Had I not but an hour ago stood upon this very common, vainly, so it seemed, invoking the spirits of passion and romance, and the grim old common had never made a sign. Find more words! 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