ADVERB
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to no avail
he looked for her in vain
the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution
How To Use in vain In A Sentence
- But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
- Some ABC bunting waiting in vain for a puff of wind
- In vain has the directory of the Bas-Rhin ordered its release; the Belfort municipality paid no attention to the order. The French Revolution - Volume 1
- Finishing the mission so our troops will not have died in vain is the most screwed up thing I have ever heard. Think Progress » 9%.
- Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
- I tried in vain to start a conversation.
- Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
- Except the Lord keep the city, the _Wakeman_ waketh in vain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
- She ran to alert neighbours who battled in vain to douse the blaze until firefighters arrived. The Sun
- If the world again sinks into the ruins of some ideological framework this history will have been written in vain and later people will revise it for themselves. Nobel Lecture - Literature 2000
