Sentence Examples

1. Behind them, billowing clouds of smoke from the flaming police cars still reached skyward to clutch futilely at the vanishing sun.
2. He had waited too often and futilely in the past for porcupines to unroll, to waste any more time.
3. Tied securely, White Fang could only rage futilely and endure the punishment.
4. Mark was carried to the ground, kicking and punching futilely.
5. For a few moments, he struggled futilely against her hold.
6. For twenty-five years, town residents have searched futilely for a chest containing the deed to an abandoned mansion on the edge of town.
7. She struggled futilely, her fists beating against his naked chest and shoulders.
8. And to top it all, off-the-cuff adventuring always earned far greater notoriety than futilely educating a hopeless student.
9. The firbolg futilely struck out towards Eilidh as she ran past.
10. Mark spent a few seconds futilely browsing through the alien language on the documents in front of him.