How to Use avail in a Sentence

avail

1 of 2 verb
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  • Our best efforts did not avail.
  • Tickets avail now! Hope to meet many of you there on Nov 7th!
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The dapper cat himself may need to avail himself of his nine lives.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The same tools that availed at the start do not avail in the middle or facing the limit point of existence.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But Guy can’t even avail himself of those dumb, blunt freedoms.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But Lynn, 77, did avail herself of a gold chair the majority of her time on stage.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Another way to stay on top of the job search process is to avail yourself of newsletters and alerts.
    — Charles G. Thompson, Wired, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Emmett gives a sure-mom promise that does little to avail her of her worry.
    — Robert Daniels, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Summer’s terrific, too, but not enough people avail themselves of the wonder just to the south.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For those who need more cores, memory, or PCIe lanes, avail yourselves of a new batch of X-series chips.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Before the pandemic, anyone who wanted to avail of the range of the bounty of produce, cheap spices, and cheeses had to work a 165-minute shift each month.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Facebook clearly gets something from the app, in the form of users who spend the whole of their conscious lives availing themselves of its products.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Many populations that may not have had PayPal or Venmo [in the past] now need to avail themselves of that.
    — Jen Wieczner, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020
  • In fact, not everyone even avails themselves of the vaccines that are developed for it.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2020
  • There’s no indication which, if any, of the other options Holmes has availed herself of.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • Some of this is flowing to money market funds in order to avail of high interest rates that the banks do not offer.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Chris Martin sings on the title song, stating the big social message that led the band to avail itself of so many peoples’ stories and sounds.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Making New York City a green utopia will not avail if Texans keep pumping oil and driving pickup trucks.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Taxpayers can choose to forego all exemptions and avail the new lower tax slabs.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Nearby, visitors can also avail themselves of a banya — a sauna and steam room that is the mainstay of both Russian and Ukrainian life.
    — Sui-Lee Wee Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Trump does have a record of availing himself of federal help meant for small businesses.
    — Meg Cramer, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Yet all that knowing didn’t stop me from availing myself of the alchemical wonders of hair dye.
    — Longreads, 5 June 2019
  • Nearby, visitors can also avail themselves of a banya — a sauna room that is the mainstay of both Russian and Ukrainian life.
    — Nyimas Laula, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • But the biggest lie that CAA supporters tell is that refugees not fast-tracked by the law can still avail normal channels, just like Lautenberg.
    — Shikha Dalmia, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The more entities that can avail themselves to 1202 provides a higher likely hood for small business growth.
    — Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These are highly recommended for those who have availed loans in the past and repaid without any defaults.
    — Adheer Dhar, Quartz India, 23 Apr. 2020
  • At the same time, this is simply a story of three young, beautiful people availing themselves of the freedom to explore, and to make mistakes, both in bed and out of it.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
  • These people should avail themselves of the opportunity to not watch Chappelle’s act or to not work for Netflix.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2021
  • But for shorter domestic travels, some flyers can still avail themselves of 21+ perks.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The movie is most wrenching when the eternal orator finds that his verbal dexterity avails him nothing.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
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avail

2 of 2 noun
  • Laird tried to find the stranger for weeks, to no avail.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2022
  • In the end, the calls to walk back the decision were to no avail.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Four staffers aided him around-the-clock — to no avail.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Big Ten has twice pursued the Fighting Irish over the years, but to no avail.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The two Tigers were looking for a whistle, but to no avail.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Bills like Kiehl’s have been introduced in the past, to no avail.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Staffers had taken steps to keep the building warm, but to no avail.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Big Red appeared to try to stop Little Red, to no avail.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Ellie attempts to cure him with her blood, to no avail.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The DeHaan family put up posters and searched to no avail.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • Some users even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app to no avail.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Aid was provided to the high schooler, to no avail, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2022
  • She was then transferred and yelled for Jason again while on hold, still to no avail.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Montas tried his full repertoire in the seven-pitch at-bat to no avail.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Highlands head coach Jeremy Baioni came out to argue the call to no avail.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 29 May 2022
  • One member of the People’s Convoy tried persuading the teens not to throw the eggs — to no avail.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Her chest heaved with increased effort, but to no avail.
    — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Pastores looked at flights from other cities, to no avail.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Wheeler circled around the perimeter and across the baseline hoping to dump it down to the big man to no avail.
    — Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
  • This led to Jeffrey trying to fight off arrest to no avail.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Death was already present and nobody wanted to die to no avail.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 May 2022
  • So more words are added to the question, and to no avail because the silence continues.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Kyiv has been asking for advanced air power since the spring, so far to no avail.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Rebels coach Ed Orgeron argued that Mitchell had pushed Hodge out, but to no avail.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 28 Oct. 2022
  • For years, investigators tried to use DNA to solve the case, to no avail.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Miller tried running them in a modern database, to no avail.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Andretti Autosport has tried to join the F1 grid in recent years but to no avail.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The couple appeared to try to keep George engaged with the tennis match to little avail.
    — Whitney Perry, Glamour, 10 July 2022
  • Rollins tried to explain—the boy’s request, the plan, independence—to little avail.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
  • Leaders from Washington to Moscow have called for Bazoum’s release, so far to no avail.
    — Pierre Meilhan, CNN, 29 July 2023

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