Four empty milk bottles stood in a line on the doorstep, waiting vainly for a milkman who no longer called.

The Administration seemed to bounce around aimlessly, waiting vainly for cooperation from the Chinese leadership.

During the period that he waited vainly for his mother to come back, he led the pack many a wild chase through the adjacent woods.

Harlan, waiting vainly for another sentence out of the old man, cleared his throat.

Was Bruce the partner she had been vainly waiting all her adult life to find or was it just Skid?

"I'm still out of my depth and swimming feeble," Daylight said, after waiting vainly for her to go on.

He felt like a condemned man vainly waiting for a reprieve.

He waited vainly to see who would do that.

The lonely vampire vainly waits for someone to sit in the chair, too shy to venture from behind the curtain.

After waiting vainly for six months for the general cancellation of debts, Antony was fed up.