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
The science of medicine bequeathed by Isis to her son Orus was of no avail, and the learned records of Tosorthrus yielded no information.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
