Maggy's head jerked around and her eyes searched vainly through the night.

I have passed my days in vainly searching for solid attachments.

Then she was searching vainly for something else to break, her back to me, the muscles in her arms standing out.

She spent her final years back in York, vainly searching for her children.

Her eyes searched vainly for something with which to beat them off, but there was nothing.

The parents, who had married and had two other children, searched vainly for years.

I looked at the others, searching vainly for a sympathetic face.

He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over his troubles, and searching vainly for some way out of them.

She had remained on Azlaroc herself, vainly searching for him.

We spent the entire week vainly searching for an flat in the old town.