of no avail

Example Sentences

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Stays in psychiatric hospitals, he later said, were of no avail.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Infants typically don’t take kindly to anything covering their nose or mouth, so the baby-sized balaclava we sourced was of no avail.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

But it looks to be of no avail.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2022

It takes a very clever actress to explore those realms where cleverness will be of no avail.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2018

Here the affair seems to have dropped, for it had long been evident that the inquisitorial methods were of no avail when the accused constituted the great body of a nation.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles