For in a flash the quartet had changed from impotentlyroaring and running idiots, to swiftly certain and efficient shepherds.
For a moment Jeff writhed and flung himself about impotently in the fearsome grip.
Trains swept across the land loaded with men who gazed wistfully at the peaceful towns as they passed through, or chafed impotently when, imprisoned in day coaches, they were side-tracked outside of great cities.
He shook the knob with some impatience, and stamped his foot impotently when no one answered.
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help--for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help--for It As Impotently moves as you or I.
It was as though a hand had impotently drawn the bow across the over-tightened, the last remaining, string of an expensive instrument, and when the string snapped the soft wailing note had been silenced for ever.
My companions rolled about on the sofas, sank impotently down on the chairs, and gesticulated.
The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it.
It was, to be sure, a flower-strewn one, but often she impotently rebelled against its very orderliness.
He loosened the clasp of his arms for a moment, and she swayed out impotently in their widening circle.
The look of his dazed eyes and the dry, white lips that rubbed impotently sideways upon each other to shape a soundless "Thank you," sent a great surging tide of solicitous alarm through Pam's bosom.
All her soul, she knew, was striving impotently to cast off the encumbrance of him--but the strength was lacking.
LII And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help--for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
LXXII And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help--for It As impotently moves as you or I.
He cursed furiously, impotently every form of life that came within the range of his distorted vision.
Above it, over it, round it, like desire impotently defying death, a flood of red roses clambered and clung.
The shells of the victorious British sang triumphantly over the heads of their own artillery, bursting impotently in white smoke or tearing up the veldt in fountains of dust.
Those from their own guns pass over them with a shrill crescendo, those from the enemy burst among them at rare intervals, or sink impotently in the soft soil.
The good citizen will imitate the good farmer; nor will he impotently attempt to set up any statute of man against the ordinances of God, which determine good and evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice.
The good farmer obeys the natural laws; nor does he impotently attempt to set up any behest of man against the ordinances of God, determining day and night, summer and winter, sunshine and rain.
It was her world--her world in miniature--that swayed towards her, while sheimpotently waited its approach!
For an hour or more he writhed and groaned in unspeakable agony, while those about him suffered a reflected torment, and chafed impotently at the distance that cut off Carrigmore and the possibility of any fresh medical relief.
The wolf-dingo's claws tore impotently at space, and his body squirmed almost into a ball.
The great Wolfhound stood erect on his hind-feet, snapping at the air with foaming jaws, and tearing impotently at the iron-sheathed partition with his powerful claws.
She clenched her hands, and beat them impotently upon her lap.
They were terrible moments for Avery that she spent outside that locked door, listening impotently to a child's piteous cries for mercy from one who knew it not.
He held a strong line enclosing Vereeniging and the drifts and extending from near Heidelberg to Potchefstroom, but it impotently watched the British troops crossing the river.
But all his wrath fell impotently on the new Duchess, who returned his presents and settled smilingly down to enjoy her new dignities and her honeymoon.
A few minutes later the Earl's chaise is a distant dark speck in a cloud of dust, at which the baffled banker impotently shakes his fist.
There was no other way left now to enjoy his power but by seeing his crushed adversaries crawl impotently into the light of day out of the dark, noisome cells of the Collegio.
A fire built against the staircase had burnt down impotently to a low heap of embers.
In seconds five men were clutched in its awful grip, their fists rising and falling impotently as the hideous arms constricted and crushed them inward.
He, Keith Wells, standing impotently by while his ship, the pride of the service, was hauled inch by inch to some strange doom!
But the little fellow, in one of his sudden spasms of pain, was striking the air impotently with small, clenched fists, frightening the children who were gathering around him, joining in his cries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impotently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
