I searched everywhere, including in the car, to no avail.
Both of them have searched for jobs for months, to no avail.
Shaquille O'Neal had an impressive 44 points and 20 rebounds, but to no avail.
Carex destitute thinking around in their pacing up and down, repeatedly tried to join them, but to no avail.
Mr. Wong said that he and Ms. Shu sometimes spent an hour or two trying to get the software to work, to no avail.
After about an hour of trying to remember to no avail, he got on the telephone and gave her a call.
Once we, who took part in the May Fourth Movement did utter the cry for the development of science, but all to no avail.
Hope sprung eternal as it had the previous year which had been dented severely by a Boxing Day hammering from Charlton Athletic, but again it was to no avail.
They protested but to no avail.
Her powers of persuasion were to no avail.
As the saying goes people's lives are destined cranky days to no avail!
For decades the Greek government has waged a campaign to get them back, so far to no avail.
Only one more wind-stained dance, wandering in the dream of Jiangnan, shallow perseverance, to no avail.
"The "trustees"of these "abandoned Babies"( including original manuscripts and letters), had gone round to look for "adoptive parents"for them, But to no avail."
The reporter knew of an old American couple who came to the visa section on behalf of a Chinese girl admitted to American University's theology department, but their visit was to no avail.
All to no avail.
The doctors tried everything to keep him alive but to no avail.
Perhaps, no more lingering, no more beautiful language, we are doomed to no avail, doomed this farewell.
Yet the double-talkers are powerful IMF shareholders, so the institution protests meekly and to no avail.
The pilot tries and tries to no avail and the plane crashes into the trees at the end of the lake.
Later Confucian scholars, in order to rediscover the original significance and form of the system indicated by the term by referring to Chinese classics, history, philosophy and belles-lettres, have interpreted and examined it mainly on the level of textual archeology only to no avail.
We tried to keep him alive but to no avail.
He also called the New York police and asked, to no avail, for help.
On its back was a Buddhist verse: unfit to mend the azure sky;I passed some years on earth to no avail;
Others like Xiong Huizhen (1859--1936), a famous scholar in Li Studies and Yang Jialuo, a renowned lexicographer, warned each other not to enter into the debate, but to no avail.
She tried her best to stop the bleeding， but it was to no avail.
I try to clear up the messy and disheveled mind full of bewildering concerns and worries, but to no avail.
I have not had any intimate relations with my wife for more than five years. We have discussed it, but to no avail.
The man tries hard to jack the car, but to no avail.
There are a lot of things that we can’t change, but there are other things that we constantly try to change with success or to no avail.
Wang tried to negotiate a solution, but to no avail.
Astronomers have been scouring the galaxy for decades for alien-produced radio signals — and more recently for non-naturally occurring light pulses, as well — to no avail.
His mother first tried to get him treatment in Iraq, to no avail; the situation simply was too dangerous.
I cranked up the radio, Sang songs, Recited poetry. All to no avail.
And I did everything humanly possible within my power to keep him on a treatment regimen, but, alas, to no avail.
His efforts were to no avail.
Monroe illustrated one example of a bizzare manner of expression when he told of coming across a seething, squirming pile of human forms trying to sexually stimulate each other to no avail, since they did not in reality still have a physical body capable of such interaction.
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