Sentence examples for fruitless lines from inspiring English sources

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As they checked more fruitless lines and rebait stripped hooks, a carpet of black clouds rolled in overhead.

This is again a simplifying assumption, but is intended to reflect the notion that inventors/scientists do not possess the foresight to know in advance which innovations will be most effective [38], and so may expend effort and time on ultimately fruitless lines of research.

Time and logistical constraints also led to numerous fruitless lines of inquiry, most obviously the aborted analysis of the schoolchildren's essays on their raid experiences.

Christopher Ruddy, who runs the conservative website Newsmax and who looked into allegations around the death of the Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster Jr., said he thought this was a fruitless line of attack.

3D printing makes it easier to try new approaches, but it also makes it easier to kill a fruitless line of thought and move on, without existentially threatening an entire venture.

This is a fruitless argument.

But Arctic Monkeys are not big on self-analysis and further questioning down this line proves fairly fruitless.

While the Europeans took this fruitless sidetrack from the main line, Tsipras played them.

I could try calling Time Warner Cable's help line, but years of frustration have diminished my appetite for largely fruitless phone exchanges with cable personnel.

This line of enquiry proves fruitless, although Cat and Tony do talk me through one highlight from Absolute's recent history.