unavailingly

Example Sentences

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Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who had unavailingly proposed in his 1956 campaign that the U.S. suspend its own nuclear tests unilaterally, feared that the U.S.S.R.'s move might "deprive us of the moral leadership."

From Time Magazine Archive

Having battled unavailingly up to the Supreme Court, all the major utilities submitted plans for slicing themselves up in accord with the death sentence.

From Time Magazine Archive

That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result of an A. F. of L.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, having applied unavailingly at a third door, which led into a “utility room,” and a fourth, the door to the kitchen, she rejoined her father, who said, “Maybe they’re asleep.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

It had been a hot July morning with a sultry land breeze blowing, and as we walked the three miles down the unshaded track, we had weariedly and unavailingly slapped at mosquitoes at every step.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane