INEFFECTUAL in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for INEFFECTUAL, such as:
1. It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual.
2. The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
3. Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual.
4. After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground.
5. At last the boy Ascanius and his troops burst through the ineffectual leaguer and issue from the camp.
2. The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
3. Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual.
4. After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground.
5. At last the boy Ascanius and his troops burst through the ineffectual leaguer and issue from the camp.
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Meanings and Examples of INEFFECTUAL
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ineffectual
a. lacking in power or forcefulness
a. producing no result or effect
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
2 Lily's feelings were softer: she pitied him in a frightened ineffectual way.
3 Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual.
4 If this were the case, his return showed that the struggle had been unsuccessful, for Lily knew he was not the man to waste his time in an ineffectual sentimental dalliance.
5 She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne menagere, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.
6 The warrior in the oak had maintained a quick, though ineffectual fire, from the moment of his discovery.
7 The sight of so many dark bodies, glancing before their eyes at the same instant, drew a hasty and consequently an ineffectual fire from the Hurons.
8 After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground.
9 It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual.
10 I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.
11 Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
12 Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
13 I issue out on the sloping height of the ridge, whence wretched Teucrian hands were hurling their ineffectual weapons.
14 Some glance ineffectual from helmet and shield; some Venus the bountiful turned aside as they grazed his body.
15 At last the boy Ascanius and his troops burst through the ineffectual leaguer and issue from the camp.
Example Sentence:
1 The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
2 He is a well-meaning but ineffectual leader.
3 He called the ineffectual cease-fire a diplomatic initiative that would be first step to end the conflict.
4 China has won, gaining the support of American allies not just in Asia but in Europe, and leaving America looking churlish and ineffectual.