How to Use fruitless in a Sentence

fruitless

adjective

• They made a fruitless attempt to find a solution.
• It would be fruitless to continue.
• But the letter appears to have been fruitless as the title went on to screen at Telluride Film Festival in August.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
• But so much time had passed that much of the search was fruitless.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
• But the search for these stars has been long and fruitless for many, many years.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• They were presumed dead as the search remained fruitless at the time.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• The keypad was broken, and all attempts to type in the code were fruitless.
  — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• Efforts to find out on her own have been fruitless, too.
  — Mary Spicuzza, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
• His initial efforts to break out of the Bond mold proved fruitless.
  — Manori Ravindran, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• Cano had longed to be a father, and to that point, the couple’s efforts to have a child had been fruitless.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• Hifter is based in eastern Libya and has waged a long and so far fruitless campaign to defeat the GNA.
  — Zakaria Zakaria, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• But that hardly means the attempt is fruitless, Smith added.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• After two years of Tony La Russa proved fruitless, what is there to lose?
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• The customer will still have to spot the specific product, but won’t have to wander the store in a fruitless search.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the hunt can be arduous and fruitless in some cases.
  — Alex Leary, WSJ, 22 June 2019
• That proved fruitless in the downpour and seven minutes later, the decision was made to put the tarp on the field.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• Rei: Just trying to revive old music all the time would be fruitless.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2024
• Still, the Jaguars had opportunities that proved fruitless, putting two on with one out in the eighth and loading the bases with two out in the ninth.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2023
• These protective measures proved fruitless against what is known as the Great Flood of 1927.
  — Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
• Even an attempt to conduct a US camp by itself would prove to be fruitless.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• And attempts to speak to anyone higher up than the call center are fruitless.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2020
• The only step the user did not take was running it in safe mode, but that would be a long, likely fruitless process.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps that’s because The Post knows that such an appeal would be fruitless.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2024
• Their fruitless search may be the last attempt to discover the treasure.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• But when the Warriors needed buckets down the stretch in the fourth quarter, those shot attempts near the hoop came up fruitless again and again.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Her phone appeared to be turned off, police said, and attempts to reach her throughout the day were fruitless.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2024
• Fouled propellers, fruitless days on the water, crabs jumping out of the pot and running from him.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• But the hunt through Key’s papers, archived in Baltimore, proved fruitless.
  — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• The immediate search for Albino was fruitless, and the case went cold for seven decades.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024