Sentence examples for it is to no avail from inspiring English sources

Yet it is to no avail.

Trying to maintain a positive attitude, we attempt to fish in water hyacinth-covered Lake Ravelobe, but it is to no avail.

She bounces out of it again when she hears Dan has a girlfriend after all, but it is to no avail: the next chapter sees Dan in New York, 11 years later, gay, playing the part of the angelic Yeats-spouting Irishman and watching half his friends die of Aids.

However - if Josh does try, and it is to no avail because his wife is just one of those people who feels entitled to do whatever she wants no matter how much it inconveniences others, then you will simply have to set your boundary hard and not deviate from it.

And though the Spurs' goal was another magnificent left-foot curler from its talisman Gareth Bale, it was to no avail because — as ever in the Wenger era — Arsenal pipped Tottenham to the last available passport to Europe's top competition.

While I disagreed with her--I thought she should have stayed and told her so--it was to no avail.

But it was to no avail.

But it was to no avail and he eventually decided against mounting a re-election bid.

But it was to no avail and he eventually decided against a re-election bid.

She said: "She tried to make him stop, but it was to no avail".

I was taken to the hospital but it was to no avail.