Sentence examples for a fruitless quest from inspiring English sources

It was, apparently, a fruitless quest.

I rummaged through my daughter's room in a fruitless quest for an old set of tangrams.

If most of your life has been spent in a fruitless quest for health, fitness and wellbeing, read on.

Others, opposed to state intervention in the abortion issue, said the speaker was grandstanding with a fruitless quest that had little or no chance of becoming law.

For the last 12 years, David Ketchum dragged his wife and four children to one church after another in a fruitless quest for the ideal congregation.

Until then, the only reason to continue what seemed a fruitless quest was a chubby kid's attraction to something she was especially bad at, and to seek the uncomfortable in a comfortable life.

And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for "perfection".

Its final shot, which one-ups Gray's punch-to-the-heart ending from The Immigrant, is a rich statement about wonder, beauty and loss; a small bit of perfection that all who regularly attend the cinema are on a seemingly fruitless quest to find.

In 1540 41 he accompanied the Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in his fruitless quest for a legendary kingdom of riches called Quivira, probably in modern Kansas.

A boy genius who had guided the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series victory in 86 years, Epstein chose to double down on that feat — by agreeing in 2011 to lead the colossally vexed Chicago Cubs, whose fruitless quest of a World Series championship dates to 1908, when they last won it.

The fruitless quest for a "perfect" body isn't unique to women,  though based on the body image conversations we tend to hear, it's easy to think so. .