vainly
Example Sentences
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Maldonado vainly tried to chase down Torres, like a slow-moving long distance runner unable to make up ground in a marathon's final yards.
From Fox News
Maldonado vainly tried to chase down Torres, like a slow-moving long distance runner unable to make up ground in a marathon’s final yards.
From Seattle Times
Why was I a misfit geek in a family of extroverts? — while presenting other mysteries that Hannah Olson’s documentary “Baby God,” streaming on HBO Max, meditates upon rather than vainly attempts to solve.
From New York Times
But throughout the film there’s only ever a sense of searching vainly for a purpose.
From Washington Times
Some distance behind her, in the next row over, Italian students subbing in due to a pandemic-fueled worker shortage tried vainly to catch up.
From Seattle Times
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