How To Use fruitlessly In A Sentence
- To Jim Holden, Denny was simply fussing fruitlessly and absurdly with an ordinary "ant-hill," as he persisted in miscalling a termitary. The Raid on the Termites
- Don't waste energy fruitlessly pursuing it; distract yourself with something productive, be it whittling, knitting or washing dishes.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Still, I deeply resented the way I fruitlessly checked the dining room for him every morning. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
- '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
- According to Dupont, this hyperidrosis was independent of any other affection, and after having been combated fruitlessly by various remedies, yielded at last to fluid extract of aconitin. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- The store I went to first turned out not to carry the brand, but I didn't know that when I went in, so after a few minutes of wandering the store fruitlessly, I stopped and asked a salesgirl.
