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 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
• Kershaw led the fruitless brigade to convince Ohtani to join the Dodgers.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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
• There have been plenty of chances for teams to break that streak, but all have been fruitless.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
• 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
• The damage was done; my offers to give him more time or to choose for him were fruitless.
  — Sheeka Sanahori, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The Long Road to Nowhere The fruitless attempts to limit public exposure to formaldehyde stretch back to the early ’80s, soon after the chemical was shown to cause cancer in rats.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2024
• Today's report is more recycled garbage from the Democrats' fruitless and close to a decade-long investigation of President Trump.
  — Andrew Solender, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025