Sentence examples for gets me nowhere from inspiring English sources

Her most recent collection, for example, began with a poem entitled "I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere," and Ponsot followed that up with a poem suggesting that the loss of old memories and feelings "will empty me / too emptily / and keep me here / asleep, at sea / under the guilt quilt, / under the you tree".

That's not a good way to feel, and I know it gets me nowhere.

I often try to interject something along the lines of "Have you considered... .. or "Have you looked at it from their point of view," which generally gets me nowhere in the conversation.

Complaining got me nowhere.

Further discussion got me nowhere.

Conveying my disappointment and annoyance got me nowhere.

It looked like a maraca, but shaking it got me nowhere.

I was working at Starbucks, and my applications for other jobs were getting me nowhere.

A simple smile and a polite offer of help seemed to be getting me nowhere.

In fact, the letters and my fervent appeals got me nowhere.

Simply searching for "social worker" on recruitment and council websites was getting me nowhere.