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
Trying to reverse the dictate given or negotiate better terms seems fruitless.
A British cruiser chased us fruitlessly for two days off Sierra Leone, and enabled me not only to test the sailing qualities, but to get the _sailing trim_ of the "Estrella," in perfection. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject. Homosexuality and Biology
Past efforts at de-knackering it have proved fruitless Yesterday, Sweden’s IPRED. So?
‘I think knowledge is a good thing,’ she says, fruitlessly rummaging for cigarettes in a trendy looking rucksack.
It took firemen 20 minutes to free him after fruitless efforts by the surgery staff. The Sun
The couple were arrested at the airport while agents searched their bags fruitlessly to find spades for disinterring Monroe's corpse, and jailed for 12 hours before being flown home. Al Murray on the Twitter joke trial: 'Problem is, the law don't do funny'
But her efforts proved fruitless, for it could not be found. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
All leave was cancelled, extra resources were poured in and forces around the country were called on for help but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
All leave was cancelled, extra resources were poured in and forces around the country were called on for help but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
But the printer kept making streaky things on the paper, so I fruitlessly spent a half hour trying to fix that.
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
During the Sugar Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin and other prominent Pennsylvanians repeatedly and fruitlessly petitioned the colonial government to take action against taverns and drinking. A Renegade History of the United States
The mulberry is a large, deciduous tree, that can have black, red, or white edible berries, or it can be fruitless. The Santa Barbara Independent stories
Voters are going to the polls again after a December vote resulted in fruitless coalition talks and six months of political deadlock. Times, Sunday Times
I drank close to a bottle of Chablis the other day while they hammered away fruitlessly at half a dozen natives.
Anastasio, and so unsufferable, that after a long time of fruitlesse service, requited still with nothing but coy disdaine; desperate resolutions entred into his brain, and often he was minded to kill himselfe. The Decameron
His quest proved fruitless, but the issue he pointed to was real. Times, Sunday Times
But measuring the group's many recordings against each other is ultimately fruitless.
Besides, by then the bombers so far outranged the jets that desperate expedients such as towing the jets or carrying them in B - 36 bomb bays proved fruitless.
During its turbulent history it had known dozens of presidents, but their efforts to rule had been fruitless, invariably with blood flowing.
In the yard he shook his head, dismissing his fruitless efforts. Times, Sunday Times
If their record on the ground is fruitless so far, the Dragons have the form and firepower up front and out wide to cause an upset. Times, Sunday Times
And when you finally discover the overwhelming fruitlessness of your efforts, how you are putting your life on the line for an ever-diminishing possibility of success, could you survive?
The title means nothing, and locating meaning in the film is a mostly fruitless challenge.
It was stupid, and fruitless considering the situation, but it was the only thing he could do, and his terror drove him to it.
After a fruitless search, my wife is then allowed to join in the game. Times, Sunday Times
A summer crammer in the hope of improving his grades proved fruitless.
The land of Canaan, which was once the glory of all lands for fruitfulness, is said to be, at this day, a fruitless, useless, worthless spot of ground, as was foretold, Deut. xxix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The battle for information is never-ending and often largely fruitless. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
First, fruitless-bearing male flies, unlike nonmutant male flies, actively court other males as well as females, although for reasons that remain poorly understood, they are unable actually to achieve intercourse with members of either sex. Homosexuality and Biology
The search proved fruitless, and the defendant's wife was considered missing. Christianity Today
After Tapia vacated the title in favour of a fruitless attempt to dethrone featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera, Medina faced fellow Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in February for the vacant IBF featherweight championship.
Attempts to have the government underwrite loans have proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
The girl was then "entrusted" to Ms. Minetti, because efforts to place the girl with social services were "fruitless," police said. Italy's PM Under Fire Over Help for a Teen
Attempts to collect "humint" (human intelligence) were "virtually fruitless". Mail and Guardian
In the yard he shook his head, dismissing his fruitless efforts. Times, Sunday Times
The municipal fire department was called and the firemen battled in a fruitless attempt to control the blaze.
He retraced his steps and spent an hour in fruitless search on the street.
Last night, while surfing the web for fun clothing in my size (a fruitless exercise most days), I ran across this site and my avaricious little heart began to pound.
If their record on the ground is fruitless so far, the Dragons have the form and firepower up front and out wide to cause an upset. Times, Sunday Times
His struggles to free himself were again fruitless.
She smirked at the intriguing fruitlessness of it all and recalled what a lumberingly absurd dream life had been.
It took firemen 20 minutes to free him after fruitless efforts by the surgery staff. The Sun
And when their efforts again prove mostly fruitless, the cycle starts anew.
The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
All diplomatic attempts at a peaceful solution to the crisis have been fruitless.
So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.
The same specialist in Oriental glyptics, says: "The efforts of some learned men to discover traces of a reciprocal influence have been fruitless. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
The Congregational establishment had given birth to a radical, antidoctrinal movement, and it seemed locked in a fruitless war of attrition.
Unless the deviations from the parallactic line of the stellar motions balance one another on the whole, their discussion may easily be as fruitless as that of observations tainted with systematic errors. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
I recognise that practitioners will in some cases incur fruitless costs in the search for such a vital clue where none exists.
With the masculine fruitless gene, females instinctiely lunge to the exclusion of their usual maneuvers.
I think that speculating on account identities is ultimately fruitless. Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’
Some of the second round confrontations were as fruitless as those of the first.
Aside: Spent ages hunting, fruitlessly — or bootlessly, if you prefer — for this on YouTube after a pal old us about it. Archive 2007-04-01
Wearied at last of fruitless plans and resultless thoughts, she went out for a walk. The Cryptogram A Novel
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
If their record on the ground is fruitless so far, the Dragons have the form and firepower up front and out wide to cause an upset. Times, Sunday Times
You know as well as I do that chasing us around the galaxy is a fruitless exercise. The Wind Beneath My Wings
The very strangeness of the fable set forth perhaps engaged the child's fancy; or the benignant mildness of the countenances, so unlike the eager individual faces of the earlier artist; for he returned again and again to gaze unweariedly on the inhabitants of that tranquil grassy world, studying every inch of the walls and with much awe and fruitless speculation deciphering on the hem of a floating drapery the inscription: Bernardinus Lovinus pinxit. The Valley of Decision
But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless.
On Ascension Eve, May 16th, Wenceslaus, after a final and fruitless attempt to alter the constancy of the faithful priest, the king ordered him to be cast into the river. Hymns of St. John Nepomucene
I have been waiting up here like Simeon Stylites on his pillar, and counting every day, and conjecturing each step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall him, and no unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind intentions vain or fruitless. How I Found Livingstone
It loses our high position as moral reformers; it subjects us to all that malignant opposition and suspicion of motives which attend the array of parties; and while thus closing up our access to the national conscience, it wastes in fruitless caucussing and party tactics, the time and the effort which should have been directed to efficient agitation. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
Meanwhile in the woods, Alonzo continued the fruitless search for his beloved Rose.
Meditation is essential to this process, as it enables us to see the fruitlessness of anger. Ed and Deb Shapiro: Violence On The Street: How To Be A Good Activist
All leave was cancelled, extra resources were poured in and forces around the country were called on for help but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
After an hour (comical bassoon solos over close-ups of the old recreant guzzling some horrible fermented potato-mash lobotomy out of a jerrican, wiping her mouth on her sleeve, belching) of fruitless search, our modern-day pirates head out to sea again, and up the eastern coast of the island. Gravity's Rainbow
At North Sea, cons regularly slip unflattering press cuttings under the door of Archer's cell in a fruitless effort to rile the peer.
The company was given time to persuade other banks to lend the money it needed, but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search for a replacement.
Previous attempts to find a suitor proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
The EU's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, who was this week negotiating fruitlessly with Chinese officials, has been more circumspect—so far.
After months of fruitless searching, they have decided to move to Canada instead. Times, Sunday Times
I spent a fruitless ten minutes walking up and down the high street, desperately avoiding eye contact with passers-by.
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
Dissatisfaction among flight attendants, already aggravated by more than three years of fruitless talks, boiled over again and allegedly contributed to a sick-out over the year-end holidays.
The company was given time to persuade other banks to lend the money it needed, but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
The depiction of the brutality and fruitlessness of war leaves a lasting impact on the reader.
They waited for another opportunity to receive a signal but this proved fruitless too.
It was his second visit this year to audition for big screen roles but pals said his search has once again proved fruitless. The Sun
For further proof of the fruitlessness of the efforts in either penalty box there was the final frantic exchanges in County's box.
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever.
The announcement this week that Owen Wilson is about to become a first-time dad by girlfriend Jade Duell -- a name heretofore unknown to the celebrity-media industrial complex -- set off a flurry of fruitless Googling across the country. Owen Wilson's babymama Jade Duell is a Beltway girl with an intriguing federal government past
And when their efforts again prove mostly fruitless, the cycle starts anew.
And only last year Red Star Belgrade finished a whopping five points behind their rivals Partizan Belgrade after 33 games of mellow fruitlessness. Who has played the fewest games during a full professional career? | The Knowledge
One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts. The Haeckel-Wells Chronicles - The Panda's Thumb
As she lies bleeding, caked in mud and freezing in the dark mineshaft, the rescue teams search fruitlessly for her. The Sun
Attempts to reach a mutually agreed solution had been fruitless.
He's the shizzle right now now and provided he makes it back from Israel alive the editors of a certain outdoors magazine may want to capitalize on that fame by sending him on one of those plum destination assignments I've been fruitlessly begging and pleading for. Joe the Plumber
Yet perhaps the effort is fruitless. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Contentment must spring from the mind, and she who seeks happiness by changing anything but her own disposition, will waste her life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the things she wishes to remove. Contentment
With this additional drama I wish Elizabeth did not have to witness the total fruitlessness of her ultimate sacrifice. Evening Buzz: John Edwards’ Love Child?
Acknowledging the basic fruitlessness of human existence is important, but so is grinning.
And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle.
It was his second visit this year to audition for big screen roles but pals said his search has once again proved fruitless. The Sun
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
It was painstaking work with many blind alleys and fruitless inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.
Almost two decades of UN-led negotiations over the name dispute have been fruitless. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
It was his second visit this year to audition for big screen roles but pals said his search has once again proved fruitless. The Sun
To date, all correspondence with the Government to request funding has proved fruitless, with some letters not even receiving an acknowledgement or reply.
Previous attempts to find a suitor proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
As he had done, fruitlessly, so many times before, he raised his voice in the chill air to sing a melody which he and Richard - no mean musician himself - had composed together.
Out back I watched two house sparrows and two white-cheeked bulbuls fruitlessly chasing a large white moth.
The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
It was painstaking work with many blind alleys and fruitless inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Symonds offers a pitilessly clear indictment of Hornet skipper Marc Mitscher and his air-group commander, Stanhope Ring, for their mismanagement and cover-up of their carrier's wayward principal air strike on June 4, the "Flight to Nowhere," which saw their dive-bombers and fighters venture forth fruitlessly over empty seas. The Beginning of the End
I interviewed Bre at NYC Resistor last month, after we went on a fruitless search for restaurants in Brooklyn that serve saltfish and ackee. Boing Boing
Some erroneously assert that all fish are female except in the cartilaginous fishes, for they think that the females of fish differ from what are supposed to be males only in the same way as in those plants where the one bears fruit but the other is fruitless, as olive and oleaster, fig and caprifig. On the Generation of Animals
Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness. The Confessions
But what you deny fruitlessly is the active part you took in the conflict that ensued between the patriots and the satellites of tyranny; it is your zeal and ardour in serving the enemies of the people, in supplying them with cartridges, which you took pains to bite, because they were directed against patriots and intended to mow them down; it is the desire you have publicly expressed that victory should belong to the power and partisans of your brother, and the encouragement of all kinds which you have given to the murderers of your country. The Ruin of a Princess
Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.
So far, their search has been fruitless.
Voters are going to the polls again after a December vote resulted in fruitless coalition talks and six months of political deadlock. Times, Sunday Times
Contentment must spring from the mind, and she who seeks happiness by changing anything but her own disposition, will waste her life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the things she wishes to remove. Archive 2009-02-01
Edward's attempts to manipulate seemed both touching and, eventually, fruitless.
George spent another ten minutes in fruitless argument, but without success. A New Beginning
FFS you are a manager of a club, why to say things which you are not going to do or not capable of doing … and after all this if we win the cl or pl which is highly highly unlikely … it would be just a flash in the pan and not wenger's masterstroke … david if we have another fruitless season (which is on the cards!) im sure cesc will leave … its wengers last year also .. so why not sell him and get another 100 mil for the club?! its pretty sad when players like inler turn you down, as have others … WordPress.com News
This sort of behavior--the quantifying of our own fruitlessness--would appear to be the very pinnacle of self-delusion. Archive 2010-06-01
Their agonising search of the local accident and emergency departments in the aftermath of one of Europe's worst rail disasters had been fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
Months of fruitless negotiations culminated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
A yogi is someone who realizes that all the actions of both the bhogi and rogi are ultimately fruitless, that satisfying cravings and indulgences is only short-lived. Ed and Deb Shapiro: Are You a Yogi, a Bhogi or a Rogi?
His quest proved fruitless, but the issue he pointed to was real. Times, Sunday Times
After attempts to silence him proved fruitless, just about everyone else chose to ignore the Holloway Road refusenik. Thierry Henry's second coming gets to the heart of the matter | Rob Bagchi
Dissatisfaction among flight attendants, already aggravated by more than three years of fruitless talks, boiled over again and allegedly contributed to a sick-out over the year-end holidays.
So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.
In the weeks that followed, there were fruitless leads and possible sightings. Times, Sunday Times
All my precautions were rendered fruitless, if I allowed her the time, the opportunity to betray me as often as she might choose, and if in the end she did return to me, I should never again be able to forget the time when she had been alone, and even if I won in the end, nevertheless in the past, that is to say irreparably, I should be the vanquished party. The Sweet Cheat Gone
I'm sitting at home in Oklahoma trying to thaw out from (stupidly) spending the last 15-degree day of Oklahoma's archery season shivering fruitlessly in the woods, and the nearest thing I have to a non-wife booth babe right now is my dog. Booth Babes?
I have seen women who worked with diet alone conceive when previous efforts were fruitless.
But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurama was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
Or for the millions of pounds of public money squandered in a fruitless attempt to sustain the convictions. Times, Sunday Times
The effort to reach a minute determination of the limits of truth led to theological hair splitting and fruitless logomachies that threatened to tear both the Lutheran and the Calvinist churches to pieces. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
During the Sugar Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin and other prominent Pennsylvanians repeatedly and fruitlessly petitioned the colonial government to take action against taverns and drinking. A Renegade History of the United States
At this stage in the development of Marxism it may seem as fruitless a task to determine which, if any, version of Marxism comes closest to Marx's own doc - trinal intent as to ask which conception of Christianity, if any, is closest to the vision and teachings of its founder. MARXISM
Hanging on to what we had last year in our pensions joins hanging on to what we thought was our nation's international status to cause fruitlessness. Donna Schaper: Recession Proofing New Year's Resolutions
To date, all correspondence with the Government to request funding has proved fruitless, with some letters not even receiving an acknowledgement or reply.
Unfortunately the investigations undertaken for this end have for a long time been fruitless, for the preconceived paludal theory has led investigators to occupy themselves exclusively with the inferior organisms inhabiting marshes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
His work characteristically involves him interacting, often fruitlessly, with a charcoal drawing he has made on a wall.
The Carlow lads found themselves toiling fruitlessly against a well-organised Killoughternane outfit during the early exchanges.
He did occasional odd jobs, puttered with fruitless inventions, commented wryly on the gaudy events of the day, botanized, talked with his father, wrote a few articles, and looked for a job. The Worldly Philosophers
The years 1820-3 were thus largely taken up with a fruitless pursuit of operatic success.
After repeated but fruitless demands for payment, he brought a suit against the debtor.
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
And so far, so fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
Their customers nare not buying but saving so fruitless exercise to give them money. New Labour has lost it’s way
After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.
There was a fruitless search for an illusory entity called 'moksha' (salvation). How Hinduism destroyed the Military - Part II
The A819 out of Inveraray is the most direct route north, but after 40 minutes of fruitless thumbing I decided to start walking in the hope of finding a more advantageous pitch.
Speaking of genes and drugs, for years there's been a fruitless search for the gene for alcoholism.
For decades milky-white Scots have suffered under the Mediterranean sun in a fruitless bid to achieve the mandatory bronzed glow of their fellow Europeans.
Allowing the produce to go to waste will not only frustrate farmers, but will also render fruitless, all the good efforts so far made to revive agriculture which collapsed in the last decade, due to bad policies.
Your sense of impending doom is heightened when one reports that his efforts to extract cash from an automated teller machine were fruitless.
Attempts to contact the company proved fruitless, with phone calls and letters going unanswered.
All diplomatic attempts at a peaceful solution to the crisis have been fruitless.
a fruitless search
Previous attempts to find a suitor proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.
All her efforts had been fruitless, but there was no despair on her face.
“Mexico has no right,” declared the president, “to jeopard the peace of the world, by urging any longer a useless and fruitless contest.” A Country of Vast Designs
The results confirm that a gene known as "fruitless" is a key factor underlying sexual differences in behavior. I am not making this up
Yet perhaps the effort is fruitless. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Our efforts to persuade her were fruitless she didn't even listen.
Nicholas scanned the shoreline, looking for anyone with an inordinate degree of interest in them, but the exercise was fruitless. FLOATING CITY
The pair specialise in finding live bodies trapped beneath rubble, but their searches in the ruins were fruitless.
Nicholas scanned the shoreline, looking for anyone with an inordinate degree of interest in them, but the exercise was fruitless. FLOATING CITY
In the summer of 2001, after some fruitless attempts at recovery, the bearer of bad tidings at Murrayfield informed him, erroneously as it turned out, that his playing career was over.
He says that last Sunday's Scottish Cup exit to Celtic, the result that damned Rangers to a joyless and fruitless remainder of an insufferable season, was for him the watershed.
After a fruitless search, my wife is then allowed to join in the game. Times, Sunday Times
It took firemen 20 minutes to free him after fruitless efforts by the surgery staff. The Sun
His essay concludes with a look at the Netherlands' largely fruitless efforts to establish a New World empire.
We had to maneuver for hours, trying different fruitless backstreets, before breaking onto open highway.
Convoys of senior diplomats converged on the theatre for hours of frustrating and fruitless negotiations.
Attempts to have the government underwrite loans have proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
I think the diorama epitomizes the fruitlessness of elementary public education. Acorns and oak trees and Arne Duncan
Frustrated with what she describes as fruitless and repetitive interviews, Ms. Abbas resigned from her Guantanamo post in 2002, and returned to another sales job in California. The Go-Between: Interpreting Life in Bermuda for Freed Gitmo Prisoners
The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.' Yet Again
The strike vote forced an equally fruitless meeting with the Liberal Democrat and independent council cabinet.
After months of fruitless searching, they have decided to move to Canada instead. Times, Sunday Times
Attempts to have the government underwrite loans have proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
But last August, after a fruitless, four-year search for a university teaching job, she began a different course of study, at the United Tractor Trailer School in central Massachusetts.
The search proved fruitless, and the defendant's wife was considered missing. Christianity Today
Still, I deeply resented the way I fruitlessly checked the dining room for him every morning. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
The company was given time to persuade other banks to lend the money it needed, but the search proved fruitless. Times, Sunday Times
But the effect, upon the minds of young persons, of frequenting the society of those in whose conversation and manners religious principle or feeling does not appear, will almost inevitably be to render what they know of religion the source of uneasiness, and of fruitless conflicts between conscience and inclination: and if, at the same time, much of hollow religionism is witnessed by them, the probable result will be either immovable indifference, or confirmed infidelity. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
'fruitless' for fruitlessly, which is so far a defect, the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

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