unavailing

How To Use unavailing In A Sentence

• Efforts to reach the people named in the report proved unavailing.
• Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership.
• He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller’s uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict. Records of a Family of Engineers
• Inquiries made of the sellers and their forwarding agents after the event were unavailing because they were either elusive or unco-operative or both.
• Diplomatic efforts at peace-making have so far proved unavailing.
• Finally, when that proved unavailing, I put my hand on the punk's chest, shoved him off his board, and finished out my ride.
• But Palmerston's skill in management was unavailing in this case and the "muss" (as Mason called it) was continued when Lindsay entered upon a long account of the interview with Napoleon, renewed the accusations of Russell's "revelations" to Seward and advised Roebuck not to withdraw his motion but to postpone it "until Monday. Great Britain and the American Civil War
• A weighted silence surged towards Daniel, empty and unavailing. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• That, too, is typical of heathenism, which is sad with unavailing cries and ignorant of answers to any. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
• He died after a brave but unavailing fight against a terminal illness.