Sentence examples for a fruitless undertaking from inspiring English sources

You try to make some sense out of it, which is a fruitless undertaking for a while.

This is an inevitably fruitless undertaking, which he called 'anguish'anguish

It would be a vast project, perhaps an infuriating one, and ultimately a fruitless one — because it would be hard not to undertake it with an eye toward the movies one could and perhaps should have been watching instead.

It is a fruitless delusion.

It is a fruitless but enjoyable debate.

Oh days given over to a fruitless.

That probably will prove a fruitless exercise.

It was not, however, a fruitless outing.

It was, apparently, a fruitless quest.

After a fruitless half-hour, he left.

I then had a fruitless conversation with a supervisor.