Sentence examples for be fruitless from inspiring English sources

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be fruitless

adjective

Useless; unproductive.

  • The unskilled man's attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.

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It might be fruitless.

Nobody expected the search to be fruitless.

So will the government investigation prove to be fruitless?

"I knew that would be fruitless," she said.

I grabbed a few to try on, knowing it would be fruitless.

Advice to dine early in order to miss the crowd would be fruitless.

Early in Fernyhough's career, his mentors told him that studying inner speech would be fruitless.

Last month, the government and Microsoft told the court that mediation would, in fact, be fruitless.

I can only aid Beryl in a search that, we hope, will not be fruitless.

I thought it would be fruitless to wait for the end of that fifteen days".

Of course swearing would be fruitless were there not unspoken rules of decency and acceptability in everyday life.

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