What is "impotently"

Usage examples of "impotently".

Water overflowed from a small well, making a pool in the courtyard, in which ducks and geese waddled, quacking, turkey-cocks fought in quiet corners, barked at impotently by Kabyle puppies.

The Persephone gardener-mower advanced on the trapped Carter, who struggled impotently to free himself.

There Gorge still struggled, his head wobbling as his flukes thrashed impotently behind.

He fell on his face, ice-axe dangling impotently at the end of its keeper-strap, and was dragged through harsh, granular snow with arms and legs floundering.

The long rod lay aimlessly against the block, hanging impotently and uselessly down with its locking ring still in place.

Yet mark his perfect self contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

Electricity surged impotently through the circuits in test pit after test pit.

I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short legs writhing impotently, I drew my sword and plunged it a dozen times into its vulnerable, exposed belly, and at last the thing stopped squirming and lay still.