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Example sentences for "vainly trying"

  • Yes, you be," he insisted, still scrutinizing her, vainly trying to account for the change.

  • The pompous man frowned darkly, and bit his lip, and folded his arms, vainly trying to think it out.

  • I said, vainly trying to disguise the involuntary bitterness of my tone.

  • I stood staring at the puddles my clothes and umbrella were forming on the strip of matting, vainly trying to rub them out with my feet.

  • Its blasts pursued us even into the recesses of the dingy wooden hall we took our ears into, vainly trying to carry them somewhere out of range.

  • Mercy, who stood on the front doorstep, vainly trying to hurry in to explain the strange scene to her mother.

  • You best go," she said, vainly trying to keep her voice steady.

  • They compelled his gaze, and the two men looked long at each other, vainly trying to penetrate to that which lay behind.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vainly trying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    avoid being; district courts; during the first half; few years; first came; full strength; general staff; grandfather said; immediate dissolution; inches deep; looking woman; manhood suffrage; off with; our children; secret room; specific experience; stifled voice; talk business; technically called; three degrees; vainly trying; want thee