Sentence examples for fruitless in from inspiring English sources

A few pedestrians slow down, fruitless in their attempts to join the shoot.

Efforts to ward off war, Wineapple makes clear, were as fruitless in the North as in the South.

Match of the Day's experiment with Vincent Kompany was interesting yet ultimately fruitless in terms of analysis.

That avenue of negotiation proved fruitless, in large part because House Republicans were deeply divided about any compromise that Mr. Obama would accept.

The Palestinians are not expected to sever contacts, although their own interactions with the Israelis have proved fruitless in recent months.

Despite her enrollment in the Education Welfare to Careers Project, attempts to find a new job have so far proved fruitless, in part because of a severe injury in 2007.

Mr. Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton both support a complete ban, and their aides engaged in fruitless talks in January on ways of curbing soft money in the campaign.

TUESDAY 10 JULY, COMPIEGNE Team managers, particularly from the French squads, have been advising their riders not to burn up all their energy in fruitless escapes in the opening week.

Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist who located Troy, held a fruitless dig in Motya in 1875.

"We aren't interested in actions that result in fruitless shuffling around in the departments.

Over the next two years, peace treaties ended England's fruitless involvement in continental warfare in which more than £2 million had been wasted and royal government brought into disrepute.