Sentence examples for a fruitless exercise from inspiring English sources

That probably will prove a fruitless exercise.

"This is a fruitless exercise, unhealthy and counterproductive.

Waiting for change in a cafe can often be a fruitless exercise.

QUESTIONING Britain's bureaucracy is a fruitless exercise at the best of times.

But sorting out Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins's intentions is probably a fruitless exercise.

"If every email contains the word 'plot' or 'facility,'" Grosser writes, "then searching for those words becomes a fruitless exercise.

The dog's experience here--a fruitless exercise that favors the eyes and ears over the mind--is not unlike watching Joe Wright's film adaptation of Anna Karenina.

Judging the overall quality of movies is a pretty fruitless exercise, since the viewers of the future will inevitably don the same kind of rose-colored glasses that we do even as they invoke different aesthetic standards to winnow the masterpieces from the surrounding chaff.

Choosing which sports rivalry is the fiercest, looniest or nastiest is a timeless, if fruitless, exercise.

Sometimes, the discussion surrounding diversity seems like a never-ending, fruitless exercise in complaining.

131st over: South Africa 548-3 (Smith oodles, Rudolph some) Smith gives Flintoff some fruitless exercise as he chases Gough's despatched, overpitched delivery over the mid off boundary rope.