Sentence examples for labored fruitlessly from inspiring English sources

The Congress almost always gets to stay away, with major exceptions being 1974, when the House planned to be here to consider impeaching President Richard M. Nixon, and 1994, when the Senate labored fruitlessly on the Clinton health care bill.

"This has been a common endeavor illustrating the way we and Europe ought to work together," said Frank Wisner, the former U.S. ambassador to India who labored fruitlessly with Ischinger last year to bring Kosovo and Serbia closer.

This depraved old reptile looks like a deliberate reflection of the bloodless Mr. Casaubon, laboring fruitlessly on his "Key to All Mythologies" in George Eliot's "Middlemarch".

His breathing was labored.

It's not labored.

Don't labor it.

Fruitlessly, it seemed to me.

The family searched for him, fruitlessly.

All of the Mavericks took turns, fruitlessly.

I raced fruitlessly through the possibilities.

I work fruitlessly on the analogy: indexes, aisles.