They made a resolute stand on the further side of a narrow deep-cut ravine, to dislodge them from which effort after effort was ineffectually made.
Smollett, like Goldsmith, tried ineffectually to escape from literary drudgery to the less irksome and more profitable duties that surround the pestle and mortar.
Crabbe's apprenticeship to Mr. Page finished, he tried ineffectually to raise the funds for a regular course of hospital instruction in London.
Lieutenant Fuller as he withdrew his benumbed hands from his airman's gauntlets and fumbled ineffectually for his electric torch.
The wretched men who had passed six months in the cellar were transported in vain to their chambers and their beds; several members of the university ineffectually tried by their cares and their tender charity to recall them to life.
Sniffling and wipingineffectually at her face with the back of her forearm, she examined the sharp scythe, and considered how pitiful and inept a fighter she must portray to any animal.
Si'Wren wiped ineffectually at her tears, smearing her wet cheeks.
Miss Aubrey seemed struggling ineffectually to heave a deep sigh, and pressed both hands upon her left side, over her heart.
When mamma has offered me ineffectually to every marriageable man in Meadowshire, she will get quite sick of it, and, I dare say, I shall be allowed to do as I like then without any more fuss.
Ineffectually have I endeavoured to conquer the ardent feelings of my soul; now I overcome them," were her last words.
The Elector of Saxony complainedineffectually to the imperial court; but Christian William of Brandenburg took more active measures.
The place was ineffectually attacked seven days; and the Imperial army supported, in a precipitate retreat, the ignominy of purchasing a secure passage from the freebooters and outlaws of the Alps.
The loss of armies, the destruction of cities, and the dishonor of the Roman name, ineffectually solicited the successors of Gratian to restore the helmets and the cuirasses of the infantry.
By this I learned, in five words, what, before the play began, my brain had been ineffectually busied about for a full hour.
The party all voted for the play, except Olivia, who observed their inclination to riot, and ineffectually attempted to persuade them to return.
Why passed the syllables now coldly andineffectually across the heart they could not penetrate?
When halfway, two young ibex were disturbed, and I ineffectually fired every barrel I had, as they bounded away.
I fired the other barrel as they gently moved up hill, but ineffectually I believe.
The ants tried hard and ineffectually to reach across it, but it did not occur to them to push the straw into its original position.
Tom, meanwhile, was battling ineffectually with the dog he had attacked, and George turned just in time to see the hound spring savagely at the lad's throat, and hurl him to the ground.
Perhaps Robert had detected the odour of rum, ineffectually concealed by the fragrance of a smoking pill, more frequently than merely after dinner, and seen the sad shadow on his daughter's face, following.
Whereupon Nim fairly turned tail, and fled ignominiously, after having ineffectually discharged a piece of timber, javelin-wise, at his enemy.
Ambassadors from the confederate states of Latium, who, after having ineffectually applied to the former consuls and censors, were at last introduced to an audience, made a powerful impression on the senate.
Whilst erecting this latter church, the legend says that the people toiled ineffectually to move the pillars to their destined place.
Sighting the submarine just as the latter was gliding beneath the waves, the hostile vessel altered helm and bore down upon the spot where R19 had disappeared, firing ineffectually with every gun that could be brought to bear ahead.
Ranulph ineffectuallyattempted to push him backwards; and, shaking away the grasp that was fixed upon his collar, seized his brother's wrist, so as to prevent the accomplishment of his purpose.
Hugh, ineffectually struggling to free himself, "you will not murder me?
In the following night, Juan de Piedrahita endeavoured ineffectually to retaliate, by assailing the camp of Alvarado, and was obliged to retreat at daybreak.
Three days were ineffectually spent in searching for some way to pass onwards, Soto being always among the foremost to go out upon discovery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ineffectually" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
