Sentence examples for fruitless conversation from inspiring English sources

I then had a fruitless conversation with a supervisor.

His relations with news contacts, too, had a tinge of drama: "After an hour of fruitless conversation.

Following the fruitless conversation with Greig, Miliband wrote directly to Rothermere setting out the episode at the memorial service.

"After an hour of fruitless conversation over endless glasses of sweet tea, I rose, shook Ahmad's hand, and headed straight to the lair where he believed I would be devoured," he wrote.

I believe that inmates tend to have many fruitless conversations.

In my experience, each severe El Niño comes with some warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS), and a lot of fruitless conversations about sandbags.

Many shoppers experienced canceled orders, followed by lengthy and ultimately fruitless telephone conversations with customer service representatives.

If your conversation proves fruitless, then talk to your building manager.

Kristin was just as eager as I was to have these conversations, as fruitless as we imagined they would be.

Our Chinese baby drew approving squeals and fruitless efforts at sign-language conversation.

Conversations would devolve into lengthy, fruitless debates, which an impatient Obama would end not by choosing one policy over another but by saying, "O.K., we should work this out" before the next meeting.