Sentence examples for fruitless hour from inspiring English sources

Holland Behrens, an art historian on the Upper East Side, said that she had spent a fruitless hour and a half tangling with a moody machine at the East 86th Street station on Monday night.

With none available, a sergeant spent two fruitless hours investigating.

Nevertheless, we spent two fruitless hours until another safari vehicle came and pulled us out.

The Devils' margin for error, hardly fat to begin with, has pretty much vanished in 27 fruitless hours.

After spending 12 fruitless hours trying to decipher the message, Kirby Smith finally dispatched an officer to Johnston to discover its meaning.

After spending fruitless hours watching the Senate weigh and balance, Washington left, swearing he'd never show up in that place again.

And the thousands of E-ZPass users who have spent fruitless hours trying to reach the system's understaffed customer service center have been using other, unprintable descriptives.

Some frustrated D.S.L. subscribers have even taken to logging the number of fruitless hours they spend on the phone with customer support employees.

There was no hope of recovering them alive, and after five fruitless hours searching in the dark the Fleetwing pushed on.

The Coast Guard suspended the search for the teenagers around 8 30 p.m., after five fruitless hours, said Susan Tolchin, a spokeswoman for the Westchester County executive's office.

The largest and only unbroken stone of the Weston fall, which weighed 36.5 pounds (16.5 kilograms), was found some days after Silliman and Kingsley had spent several fruitless hours hunting for it.