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Example sentences for: avail

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Oklahomans have prayed for divine intervention to no avail.
As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.
The Byzantine Emperor at the time, Manuel II (1391–1425), tried to appease his enemies by allowing a Turkish district, mosque, and tribunal within his city, and by courting Turkish goodwill with gifts of gold, but to no avail.
However, there is no reason to believe that these individuals would not avail themselves of workers' compensation for lost work time before switching, so this healthy worker effect should not substantially affect the claim prevalence rates reported in this study.
This, however, would be practically impossible with the so-called Guide . No amount of patient effort and guessing to reconstruct a sentence would be of any avail because the Yiddish in the Guide is garbled to the point of incoherence.