futilely 的定义
- incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
- trifling; frivolous; unimportant.
futilely 近义词
等同于 vainly
futilely 的近义词 4 个
更多futilely例句
- Locals threw buckets of dirt on the craft in a futile attempt to extinguish the flames.
- That might explain why its rays were so futile when it came to getting temperatures to rise today.
- After a futile possession by the Jets, the Patriots got the ball back at their 22-yard line with 47 seconds to play.
- Without the ability to know the source of the data, permanently opting out of cookie tracking was generally futile.
- Trapping him is futile, given that few big men can contain Walker in space, and dropping too low lets him feast in areas where he’s very comfortable.
- But conservatism now feels a lot like liberalism did in 1984 and 1985, back when I was futilely shoveling away that snow.
- I have spent the many years since trying, futilely, to catch up.
- Israel is quick to laud those who fought the Nazis, no matter how futilely, over those who went powerless to their deaths.
- Houston reeled with the effect of it; he gasped, he struggled aimlessly, futilely, for words to answer it.
- Her shoulders heaved as—futilely—she strove to wrench her arms free.
- A steel door bars the public from this laboratory and it was upon this door that Joy and I pounded futilely for three days.
- "She's having a dose, she is," said a young woman walking up and down, futilely patting the back of a shrieking infant.
- When Teddy found himself a pauper he had raged furiously and futilely, and the gallop to the grave went at double pace.