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He searched vainly for his car keys.
Faced with more and more cases, however, some councils vainly tried for a time to impose a permanent ban on a man who married outside.
People began to call vainly for a moratorium on debt.
I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place.
The final section on educational implications includes three chapters in which the authors attempt, vaguely and vainly, to link research with practice and policy.
The military tried vainly to reverse the situation.
Yet if opera, and certainly grand tragic opera in the traditional sense, is to be anything, this is surely what it must, however vainly or wanly, attempt.
It shan't spring vainly from the vine!
I had hoped—evidently vainly—that it would be possible to keep the question of the national credit out of acute political controversy.
