Gracefully dealing with a stolen election ... you didn't mean to say "impotently", did you?. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Hillary Believes Obama Threat Will "Diminish"] Reference
Bostwick glared at him vindictively, but impotently. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Metkin struggled impotently for a moment, then subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
He fell back a pace beating the air impotently and whining. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
He kicked the instrument over and danced round it impotently. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
"Let me go," he shouted, as he tugged impotently at the reins. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
She sat on the cold marble and stared impotently up at the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Tutoring Lady Jane]
Piemur glared impotently at the delighted grins of the other apprentices. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
I hurried forward and picked impotently at the bonds of the sleeping monster. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
She turned her hands into fists and smacked them impotently against each other. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
There was nothing left for him but to beg his living and impotently nourish his hate. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
I rushed around impotently, swabbing up the gallons of water and trying not to wake up R. From Wordnik.com. [I suck suck suck at math] Reference
The sailor, drunk with pain, still flailed blindly at the air, impotently seeking the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
He shook the knob with some impatience, and stamped his foot impotently when no one answered. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
This also is evident from the scope of the whole passage, and is here only impotently denied. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
"Get your hands offn me," Barney roared as he struggled and squirmed impotently in their grip. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
I wait on the edge of my hot-seat for Franco's rejoinder, but must once more listen impotently to Haj. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
For a brief moment Drusus looked as if he would vomit; then he lifted his arms and shook them impotently. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Sigh-moving-Fast raged impotently, but try as he might, he was unable to give the Restorees 'secret away. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Still rocks, rocks, rocks, against whose adamantine sides my feeble will dashed restlessly and impotently. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Alma Mater, and now he must hobble impotently on the side-line, watching his team fight a desperate battle. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
He did not intend to wait helplessly for that moment, like a rat chittering impotently at the back of its burrow. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
The missiles, their drives still flaring impotently away, sat frozen in space perhaps a third of the way to the shark. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
There was no doubt of the fact, and the king raged impotently against his own foolish mercy in giving them a free pardon. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
I staggered across the room toward the small kitchen, scratching impotently at my nape with Halukoid fingers lacking nails. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Men and women shrieked impotently, crushed against the floor as others fell or stumbled over them in a headlong dash for safety. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Pirating a mech transport was pure blithe amusement compared with impotently watching the hoop cut into the heart of their world. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
Square of palm and long of finger, beautiful in a masculine way, the hands were lifted to grope at the air, clench upon it impotently. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
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