futilely

Example Sentences

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Futilely the Luftwaffe rose to ward off the blows of a superior enemy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Senate� � Futilely debated the Dawes-McNary-Haugen farm relief bill all week, without getting to a vote, although the vote was always imminent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Futilely she hammered against it with her fists, thinking wildly, Make it open, make it open, or they’ll catch me.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Futilely protesting, the rowboats were dragged backward, turned as a whip is snapped, and strung out along the bank below.

From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward

Futilely in that hell to which one may look back and see that it was not hell but purgatory prior to paradise, futilely there he had sought the reason of his damnation.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar