uselessly

She drops to the floor on her knees, her head bowed, and the gun falls and skitters uselessly across the wooden floor.

Afterward, Christy and her friend sit uselessly on a couch while the men plot the expansion of Facebook.

It would be the just man immolating himself uselessly and hopelessly for his country.

The giving up of these papers was a first pledge, uselessly made by the Guises to the queen-mother.

But they only churned uselessly in the drift; their hoofs could find no footing, save the yielding masses of snow.

My duty is to the citizens of the federated governments, and I cannot uselessly sacrifice more lives.

In South America most of the countries retrograded, and the whole continent was drenched with blood uselessly shed.