fruitless

How To Use fruitless In A Sentence

• That search, which Corto knows is fruitless, reconciles the sublimation of the motivating object with the euphemistic cynicism of a horizontal and not ascensional awareness of the journey.
• No, no, no; you'd never find me wasting my time on such fruitless triviality.
• And this is the cause that disputes with such persons are generally fruitless, especially as immixed with that intemporancy of reviling other men wherein they exceed; for if that be a way either of learning or teaching of the truth, it is what the Scripture hath not instructed us in. Pneumatologia
• Hai!” switching the camel, and fruitlessly endeavouring to fustigate Mas’ud’s nephew, who resolutely slept upon the water-bags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• He was sure sleep would evade him, with his mind still spinning fruitlessly on its search for information that wasn't there.
• This makes it possible to constantly move towards our goals and not get caught up in fruitless opportunity chasing. Weather Any Storm with a Flexible Blogging Plan | Write to Done
• Punch investors are worried it will be undone by its huge debt pile and its fruitless attempt to stem the tide of drinking at home. Times, Sunday Times
• Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimately fruitless talks.
• So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.
• fruitless" for fruitlessly, which is so far a defect, the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1