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What does futilely mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a futile manner.
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Most days at least one gets itself stuck in the house, usually trying valiantly but ultimately futilely to fly through one of our closed windows.
She then grabbed an ax, and swung it futilely around her before the warriors were upon her, stabbing her in the heart.
For example, let's say that a young inventor is trying futilely to build a time machine in his garage.
I tried futilely to cling to the last fragments of a fading dream and go back to sleep when several more explosions followed.
And I did spend a lot of time futilely trying to talk to the FBI press office about the flight.
Rodney was fighting futilely against them as his red hair fell messily into his terror-stricken green eyes.

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