ineffectually in a sentence

Examples

1. The Levellers gave up all attempts to rouse the country and army to open rebellion, and started to conspire ineffectually in secret.
2. Both the director and the protagonist are outsiders who strive ineffectually for acceptance in what they see as a corrupt and mysterious world.
3. General Pongsak had been criticized for ineffectually fighting the South Thailand insurgency, after 39 successful arson attacks occurred in just one night.
4. Eli tries ineffectually to lie, and ends up killing a flustered O'Neill who says he wants out of the deal.
5. Katherina is a very young, aggressive lesbian, courted ineffectually by Popolitipov ( John Christopher Jones ), a romantic if meanspirited apparatchik.
6. It was too much for Indonesian mining officials, who struggled ineffectually to find a formula that would include both branches of the family.
7. From time to time, it has been accused of straying from its original mission and trying ineffectually to bring about profound social changes.
8. Mrs . Worrall ( Wendy Hughes ), the good-hearted woman who opens her home to Caraboo, tries ineffectually to protect her.
9. All the energy and anxiety engendered by this fluctuating environment were on display last week in a shrill televised debate ineffectually moderated by Larry King.
10. Instead of firing salvoes of missiles, as it ineffectually did in 1998, America opted to tighten the diplomatic and economic noose on Afghanistan.