Sentence examples for increasingly fruitless from inspiring English sources

On the 15km finishing circuit in Doha the chasers' task became increasingly fruitless.

Helen recognizes Julia as someone she suspected of having, or trying to have, an affair with her husband some years back, and she begins to play mind games in what becomes an increasingly fruitless game of revenge.

This attempt will, as they become more immersed in school and the larger social world, become increasingly fruitless.

It was fruitless, he said.

International peace talks over Ukraine, once the mechanism by which Mr. Putin forced contact with Western leaders who had shunned him over annexing Crimea, have become increasingly regarded as fruitless and irrelevant.

The experience went a long way toward convincing Einstein that mathematics could be a telegraph line to God, and he spent most of the rest of his life in an increasingly abstract and ultimately fruitless pursuit of a unified theory of physics.

This is a particularly striking departure after the prequel films, which leaned heavily on cleaner CGI imagery, and is also a welcome divergence from current blockbuster filmmaking, which has been locked in a largely fruitless and increasingly unconvincing arms race when it comes to CG landscapes and creatures.

Nine months of fruitless searching have made that increasingly clear.

There was an obvious explanation: a year earlier, the department had denied Bishop's bid for tenure, and her protracted and increasingly desperate efforts to appeal the decision had been fruitless.

Both, it seems, are part of a culture that increasingly overworks our citizens, from a younger and younger age, in the often fruitless quest for job security and social mobility.

Meanwhile the fruitless search for a new Rovers striker continues, with Allardyce growing increasingly frustrated by his ongoing inability to buy or borrow the much-needed goalscorer required to add to the paltry seven Premier League goals the senior strikers Jason Roberts and the currently injured Nikola Kalinic mustered between them last season.