How To Use futilely In A Sentence
- Breitmann had entered the employ of the admiral for the very purpose for which M. Ferraud had journeyed sundrily into the cellar and beaten futilely on the chimney. A Splendid Hazard
- But at his best he was also capable of delivering among the most clinical yorkers in the game, the ball arrowing in toward the batsman's toes, often leaving them sprawled on the floor as they jabbed their bat futilely at the ground as the stumps cartwheeled behind them. The Paradox of Shoaib Akhtar
- Equally futilely from time to time, Barton, with his hands cupped to his mouth, holloed -- holloed -- holloed -- into the thunderous darkness. Little Eve Edgarton
- Ignorant of the law, Mona, Stella, Adelaide, and countless other honorable young women feared prosecution for money owed and futilely sought to repay their madams through prostitution.
- So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. CHAPTER XI
- He was soon buried beneath them, still fighting futilely for his life…
- As I sat in bed and futilely attempted to sleep, I noticed a deep rumbling sound emanating from the hollow recesses of my cavernous stomach.
- They must deal creatively with uncertainty instead of futilely trying to eliminate it.
- Mr. Wheler was taken off, -- despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
- Rodney was fighting futilely against them as his red hair fell messily into his terror-stricken green eyes.