What is "ineffectually"

Usage examples of "ineffectually".

Two attempts were ineffectually made to gain soundings, and the extreme density of the fog precluded us from any other means of ascertaining the direction in which we were driving until half past twelve, when we had the alarming view of a barren rugged shore within a few yards, towering over the mast heads.

The flotilla of boats and men drifted and motored closer to the shore, ineffectually trying to cage the caiman thrashing in the water.

For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one be ineffectually darted without recovery.

Nord Zee, and the four of us in the compartment lost our will to talk and sat pooped and quiet as we passed ineffectually through the world.

She pulled her raggy sleeve down over one hand, and mopped, ineffectually.

Yr, her hands patting ineffectually at Merlion s body as if it was somehow possible to put her back together again.

SS killer hauled before a court and in every way possible to stultify the course of justice in West Germany when it operates against a former Karnerad, to see that former SS men established themselves in commerce and industry in time to take advantage of the economic miracle that has rebuilt the country since 1945, and finally to propagandize the German people to the viewpoint that the SS killers were in fact none other than ordinary patriotic soldiers doing their duty to the Fatherland, and in no way deserving of the persecution to which FOREWORD xi justice and conscience have ineffectually subjected them.

I instantly and ineffectually tried to look as though I had not thrown it.

Tanner moaned and snapped away, sensing the dinichthys below him, kicking out fearfully, slashing ineffectually at nothing as with a sudden vicious tide the ridges and scales swept past him, tons of muscle flexing, the sound of bone on bone jarring through the water.

Mademoiselle, she concluded that some new calamity was annexed to the name of Monimia, and, dreading to rip up a wound which she saw was so ineffectually closed, she for the present suppressed her curiosity and concern, and industriously endeavoured to introduce some less affecting subject of conversation.

It moved horribly and sluglike through the night, the choppers seeming to putter ineffectually around its edges.

A plain-faced girl tugged ineffectually at his elbow, her long blond hair unflatteringly dressed in coiled braids that only served to emphasize the length of her neck and nose.

Out of range of the arquebusiers on the walls, the Croats and Hungarians milled about ineffectually.

She drove through town with her headlights on and wipers slapping ineffectually at the windshield.

Several months were ineffectually consumed in a treaty which was negotiated at the distance of three thousand miles between Paris and Antioch.