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Meanings of bootless in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "vain"
Examples for "vain"
1
I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
2
They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
3
I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
4
Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
5
Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
1
Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile, he said.
2
But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile.
3
I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
4
Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
5
I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
1
Yet, each search over the course of almost two years proved fruitless.
2
Fighting him on land is fruitless, he just slips back to sea.
3
But all efforts to find their family and their home proved fruitless.
4
An unprecedented multinational search for the jet has so far proved fruitless.
5
That too was a fruitless effort; it had no intention of compliance.
1
Luke Donald's diamond-patterned sleeveless jumpers are a throwback to older fashion days.
2
Loose-fitting women's tops rendered in natural fibers were sleeveless and seemingly carefree.
3
She soon peeled away two layers to reveal a sleeveless orange top.
4
She was wearing nothing but her panties and a sleeveless baby-doll nightgown.
5
The long, sleeveless pale-blue satiny dress she wore looked like a nightgown.
Usage of bootless in английском
1
But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife.
2
The old Squire never learned of Halstead's bootless experiment in forced feeding.
3
Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.
4
Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
5
Then came a sound as of bootless feet pressing the stairs stealthily!
6
A week ago such an act would have been bootless utopianism.
7
The cold iron stirrups froze and cut the hunter's bootless feet.
8
To walk gloveless and bootless and need sunblock on my face.
9
Dad was in the lead, and poor Joe, bare-shinned and bootless, in the rear.
10
The answer proved, like all the others, unsatisfactory and bootless.
11
The oath he swore was bootless, but it made Dolon more keen on going.
12
And he recalled his own bootless wickedness and underhand intrigues.
13
It was bootless, showing feet that were quite human except for the talon-like toenails.
14
Yes, bootless was it to have expected anything from such a source as that.
15
You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.
16
Atlanta's struggle against the restless Sherman has been only wasted valor, a bootless sacrifice.
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