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How to use impotently in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word impotently? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He turned the bureau's news camera on the night sky to record the tracer fire now arcing impotently towards the incoming missiles.
Building workers with no experience are taken on for low wages, while hardened professionals watch impotently.
The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year.
These ordinary people, trying to get on with their normal working lives under terrible conditions, impotently await their fate.
Officers carrying out surveillance duties on foreign territory have hitherto had to watch impotently as crimes were committed.
How many times have we stood here impotently railing against the way in which Mugabe oppresses his people?
It is not like 1994 in Kigali, where nothing could be done, where we had to stand and watch impotently as massacres occurred.
I suppose I'll get used to it in a few weeks and won't get so impotently angry at the futility of their actions for which they receive good money.
What does it say when the Government sits by impotently when a star witness is gunned down in broad daylight on the Bulgarian Supreme Court steps?
Similarly, when neoconservative ideologues speak of needing to rebuild an embattled US hegemony and legitimacy, they aren't impotently expatiating.
No more impotently staring at the cars bursting with settler children as they drive right past your nose to that very same beach.
For decades, archivists and librarians have been forced to watch impotently as their treasures were destroyed by acid.
All while the international community observed, if not passively, impotently.
I impotently witness all humanity's race towards spiritual death.
As the world has watched impotently, over 110,000 Syrians have died.
In calmer water, we could skirt along the bottom of cliffs that sucked and roared impotently as we danced insolently around promontories and slid between rocks and shore.
Only if general secondary education stands impotently by, or colludes with the development, will unscrupulous productivism or unbridled consumerism result.
But even propping up the bar at Dan's Club was better than sitting impotently back at my desk or in my apartment or in Harriet's house, longing for an unlabored breath.
The chief function of Headey, Cersei in Game of Thrones, is to provide a voiceover while Santoro gazes, impotently, in his finest gold lame posing pouch and bondage bling.
Examples from Classical Literature
Blake raged at that, impotently, pathetically, like an old lion with its teeth drawn.
She pushed the idea from her, impotently, as one might push at a lava flow.
In that query was the riddle which impotently Verplank was trying to solve.
I doubt that he once thought of the little fortune he had so impotently squandered.
It had lasted only seconds, Bert was dancing on the edge of the slippery slope and mocking the vanquished who had slid impotently to the bottom.
In 2006 I remember bellowing impotently at the radio as Gordon Brown fluffed his opportunity to put a fresh-faced David Cameron to the sword.
As blame is traded back and forth between countries, the UN looks on impotently as atrocities continue.
The hands and feet strained impotently against the fettering cords.
The disaster rankled in Edward's mind, ever craving vengeance, impotently.
This was resented, but impotently, by the various sovereigns.
They both sprang to their feet, and glared at him impotently.
Five sullen little boys stood and glared at her, impotently.
He raised his clenched hands, only to drop them limply, impotently.
Behind him Trevison heard Corrigan raging impotently, profanely.
The infuriated beast, pulled up and backwards until he stood upon his hind legs, struggled impotently in this unnatural position.
The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it.
Then Lerumie took to the main rigging, leaving Jerry impotently to rage on the deck beneath him.
About eleven o'clock they were passing over the basin of Imenge, and the tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their weapons.
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