How To Use Fruitlessly In A Sentence
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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
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Don't waste energy fruitlessly pursuing it; distract yourself with something productive, be it whittling, knitting or washing dishes.
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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
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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
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His work characteristically involves him interacting, often fruitlessly, with a charcoal drawing he has made on a wall.
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The Carlow lads found themselves toiling fruitlessly against a well-organised Killoughternane outfit during the early exchanges.
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Still, I deeply resented the way I fruitlessly checked the dining room for him every morning.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
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'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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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
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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.
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Don't waste energy fruitlessly pursuing it; distract yourself with something productive, be it whittling, knitting or washing dishes.
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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?
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While again fruitlessly trying to clear our archives of accumulated links, we were happily reacquainted with Richard Box's installation called Field.
Fluorescent Field
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Grabbing fruitlessly at bulrush stalks, which snap like chicken bones, he crashes face down into the mud.
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When they had fruitlessly exhausted their task, Myeloski called the caretaker to guide them round the rest of the palace.
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Ignorant of the word ‘pushchair’, she fruitlessly searched London for plastic covers for her ‘stroller’.
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_ and adds the following remark: -- "It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value, is the lines printed in italics; it is equally obvious, that, except in the rhyme, and in the use of the single word ` fruitless 'for fruitlessly, which is so far a defect, the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose.
Biographia Literaria
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In the early days of the late 1990s, pioneer online merchants fruitlessly spent millions of dollars on TV and radio ads aimed at the mass market.
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Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever.
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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
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He was sure sleep would evade him, with his mind still spinning fruitlessly on its search for information that wasn't there.
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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
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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
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‘I think knowledge is a good thing,’ she says, fruitlessly rummaging for cigarettes in a trendy looking rucksack.
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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'
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But the printer kept making streaky things on the paper, so I fruitlessly spent a half hour trying to fix that.
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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
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I drank close to a bottle of Chablis the other day while they hammered away fruitlessly at half a dozen natives.
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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
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The EU's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, who was this week negotiating fruitlessly with Chinese officials, has been more circumspect—so far.
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Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever.
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As she lies bleeding, caked in mud and freezing in the dark mineshaft, the rescue teams search fruitlessly for her.
The Sun
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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
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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.
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Out back I watched two house sparrows and two white-cheeked bulbuls fruitlessly chasing a large white moth.
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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
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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
