Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: availed
IPA transcription: [əv'eɪld]
Usage examples
  • Nothing availed.
  • "I would have stayed if it could have availed."
  • Conniston availed himself of this permission at once.
  • The child availed herself of the permission, then gently patting the newcomer, repeated her glad cry, "Baby, pretty baby."
  • It's what I've always prayed for," said Mrs. Rachel, in the tone of one who is comfortably sure that her prayers have availed much.
  • What availed it all when the same hand that heaped favors upon me, the guest, could deal death without compunction upon friends and relatives?
  • And he, the scourged one, thought to hide himself, Lowering his face, but little it availed him; For said I: "Thou that castest down thine eyes,
  • Life had developed in her a sense of humor which helped her over many difficulties; but as yet nothing had availed to steel her against a reference to her hair.
  • All of the technical, expert, and professional skill and knowledge that money could procure or experience devise were availed of in the bitter fights that raged in the courts for many years.
  • The brother having long laboured under this malady, when no human means availed to save his eye, but rather, it grew daily worse, on a sudden, through the grace of the mercy of God, it came to pass that he was cured by the relics of the holy father, Cuthbert.