Примеры употребления для vainly
1. Instead, haunted by what he had witnessed, he found himself vainly seeking help.
2. I tried again in 2006, spending days vainly seeking a guarantee of safety.
3. The prime minister is struggling, vainly, to exert his old authority.
4. Instead, your reporter apparently stuck to Oktyabrskaya Square in central Minsk, vainly awaiting shootings and mayhem.
5. Authorities vainly attempted to restore calm, assuring the public that no leak had occurred.