Sentence examples for fruitless quest from inspiring English sources

It was, apparently, a fruitless quest.

But the negative findings suggest it is time to rein in this fruitless quest.

I rummaged through my daughter's room in a fruitless quest for an old set of tangrams.

If most of your life has been spent in a fruitless quest for health, fitness and wellbeing, read on.

In 1540 41 he accompanied the Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in his fruitless quest for a legendary kingdom of riches called Quivira, probably in modern Kansas.

Others, opposed to state intervention in the abortion issue, said the speaker was grandstanding with a fruitless quest that had little or no chance of becoming law.

But if governments want to pursue other interests instead, they should have the courage to admit it, instead of hiding behind meaningless dialogues and fruitless quests for cooperation.

Here too, lots of resources (provided by the users) could easily be wasted in fruitless quests for rights holders.

A BBC news reader was not alone in borrowing a line from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" to describe America's so-far-fruitless quest to pin down the whereabouts of the elusive Edward J. Snowden.

But he said that the White House continues to support the accords and the so-far-fruitless quest for a Palestinian state.

It is a fruitless delusion.