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• Please do excuse my French; I've been trying vainly for about an hour, and I'm ticked off.2014 May 29, -screamin-, “I would like to watch MAoS Declassified, but I don't live in bloody Eagleland. Hmmph.”, in Reddit, shield…. From the entry Eagleland
• He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. From the entry fly
• Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.1939, Social Work Today - Volumes 7-8. From the entry emptyhandedness
• Vainly did he feelingly paint the perfumed love passages of the passionate pair.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry feelingly
• "Hello, Muggs!" he cried, vainly trying to bestow a pat upon that unquiet animal.1906, Ralph Henry Barbour, “In the Rowing-room”, in Captain of the Crew, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 147. From the entry who'd have thunk it
• “I will bewitch them with flea-bane, blister them with hog-weed,” he said, vainly looking for a suitable spell.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 119. From the entry hogweed
• Morning found us still vainly toiling through the passage.1911 June, Jack London, “Cruising in the Solomons”, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 279. From the entry turn tail
• The young man faithfully delivered what Jinnah called “the gup”—the day's gossip — and tried vainly to extract a newsworthy quote from the League leader.2015, Nisid Hajari, chapter 8, in Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company…. From the entry gup
• I vainly try to assure myself that these daemoniac creatures are not gradually leading up to some new policy hurtful to the earth and its normal inhabitants.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry daemoniac
• Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry alchemist
• Panurge's comedy is the agony of indecision as he struggles obstinately and vainly to interpret every unfavorable omen in its countersense, to substitute his willful imagining for reality and fate.1968, Francis L. Lawrence, Moliere: The Comedy of Unreason, page 102. From the entry countersense

Meaning of vainly

1. adverb In a vain pursuit; to no avail.
2. adverb With a vain attitude; in a self-approving manner.

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How do you use vainly in a sentence?

Vainly is used as an adverb. For example: “She searched vainly for her reflection in the shattered mirror.”

What is a short sentence with vainly?

“Morning found us still vainly toiling through the passage.”

What does vainly mean?

Vainly means in a vain pursuit; to no avail.