Sentence examples for fruitless period from inspiring English sources
This episode is usually written off as a fruitless period in Darwin's young life and intellectual formation.
In a parliamentary democracy, this kind of careless approach would condemn the responsible party to a long period of fruitless opposition, like that experienced by Britain's Labor Party in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It is also fruitless to turn to Arabian physicians during this period for more hope, as their body of literature was more interested in the knowledge of natural history - the virtues of plants and alchemy.
Stop your life from becoming a fruitless and tiresome routine.
12.46pm GMT Canada 0-0 USA, 13:1st 1st period No dice for Canada on their power play opportunity - a fruitless two minutes that will frustrate their coach Dineen.
The desperate rescue operation reached the miners after assorted mechanical setbacks and a long, excruciating period of silence from below since Thursday when the noise of rescue operations rendered fruitless any attempt at hearing tapped signals from the men.
McCullum singled out the performance of Peter Fulton who, having had a period out of the side, scored a century in each innings to set up New Zealand's ultimately fruitless victory push.
These efforts proved fruitless.
Tudor City proved fruitless.
