vainly造句
1. The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.
2. He sought vainly for the answer.
3. The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
4. The instructor struggled vainly to open his parachute.
5. He tried vainly to make them listen.
6. We tried vainly to discover what had happened.
7. The enemy vainly attempted destroying the bridge.
8. He hunted vainly through his pockets for a piece of paper.
9. He shouted after them, vainly trying to attract their attention.
10. The hapless governor, who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan's authority, was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801.
11. Vainly the artillery of the Federals tore great gaps and paths through this torrent of men....
12. North of Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, farmers vainly attempted to throw up earthen dikes to keep ripening crops safe.
13. The glowing stream searched vainly in the darkness behind us and stopped.
14. We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
15. Science vainly struggles to keep up, offering hypotheses implicating all manner of causes and suggesting all manner of effects.
16. A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity.
17. Encased in iron lungs, tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.
18. Never let the honey-sweet wine go vainly past!
19. The criminals vainly sought concealment from the searchlight.
20. She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply.
21. I vainly tried to record it on my Dictaphone, at the match.
22. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.
23. After trying vainly to turn himself into an English gentleman, he was initiated into Hindu philosophy by a Russian Theosophist.
24. The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him.
25. He then set out for Virginia for what he vainly hoped would be a peaceful retirement.
26. He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
27. The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions.
28. He, too, ten years ago, had piously sought out a tomb, and sought it vainly.
29. In another style of book, the source code just lays there as a dead mass, with the prose vainly trying to vivify it.
30. He lingered in the folly of despair about those sordid lodgings in Diisseldorf, as one might circle vainly about the spot in the ocean where some pearl of great price had fallen overboard.
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