How to use unsuccessfully in a sentence

More sentences with unsuccessfully

• Here, representatives of Indian Dalits (unsuccessfully) tried to make casteism part of the official condemnation of racism.2023, Wulf D. Hund, Marx and Haiti, page 171. From the entry casteism
• Guy started fumbling with his zipper, trying unsuccessfully to squeeze off the flow of urine.2022, Chuck Marten, Bad Guy Lawyer. From the entry squeeze off
• It complained (unsuccessfully) to Wikipedia, protesting against it publishing an entry on Palawa kani.2018 March 30, John Hartley, “Creative economy: industry versus language?”, in Abbe E. L. Brown, Charlotte Waelde, editors, Research…. From the entry palawa kani
• Hanrahan closed his mouth, tried unsuccessfully to breathe through his nose, then opened his mouth again.1983, Gregory Mcdonald, Fletch and the Man Who, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry joy
• Galileo had announced the discovery through an anagram Kepler published in the latter work, unsuccessfully trying to solve it.2015, Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice, Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry tricorporal
• Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.1980 August 16, Duncan Mitchel, “Memoirs of a Survivor”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 14. From the entry aberrance
• No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.1963, Albert J[ay] Solnit, Sally A. Provence, editors, Modern Perspectives in Child Development: In Honor of Milton J. E. Senn, New York…. From the entry redress
• Heterocoral apparently descended unsuccessfully from Rugosa.2013, W.J. Frazier, D.R. Schwimmer, Regional Stratigraphy of North America, page 183. From the entry heterocoral
• "I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen-year-old kid.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry twitch
• The living room had a tilty floor and a fireplace with a Dutch oven in which my mother tried, unsuccessfully, to bake bread.1996 April 18, Honor Moore, “Close to Home”, in The New York Times. From the entry tilty
• Those unacquainted with the pawky humor of the Scot will search unsuccessfully in reference books for mention of the elusive Colonel Boffin.1991, Sydney Ross, Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science, Springer, page 32. From the entry pawky
• I watched as Aisha bargained, unsuccessfully, for a charm against the Evil Eye, a pink-and-yellow plastic hand of Fatima decorated with sequins.1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 276. From the entry Hand of Fatima
• On his recent trip he confined himself to driving a runabout, towing Lynda Bird on an aquaboard, trying rather unsuccessfully to teach her to ski.1964, MotorBoating, volume 114, number 3, page 155. From the entry aquaboard
• A so‐called star witness in the Brooklyn grand jury inquiry of alleged links between the police and gamblers sought unsuccessfully yesterday to free himself from protective custody.1964 July 25, Alfred E. Clark, “Gambling Witness Under Guard Fails in Move to Gain Freedom”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2014. From the entry protective custody
• Trump’s authority has stretched internationally, so far unsuccessfully, to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while claiming success in stopping conflicts between India and Pakistan and Armenia and Azerbaijan.2025 September 8, Harlan Ullman, “Will America survive another 250 years?”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2025. From the entry Armenia

Meaning of unsuccessfully

1. adverb Not successfully; without success; to no avail.

Full definition of unsuccessfully

More about unsuccessfully

• Meaning of unsuccessfully
• Unsuccessfully in Hindi
• Unsuccessfully in Urdu

Questions about unsuccessfully in a sentence

How do you use unsuccessfully in a sentence?

Unsuccessfully is used as an adverb. For example: “Here, representatives of Indian Dalits (unsuccessfully) tried to make casteism part of the official condemnation of racism.”

What is a short sentence with unsuccessfully?

“Heterocoral apparently descended unsuccessfully from Rugosa.”

What does unsuccessfully mean?

Unsuccessfully means not successfully; without success; to no avail.