Sentence examples for so fruitless from inspiring English sources

The commission said one program had proved so fruitless that it was discontinued after less than a year.

Inevitably, the conversation returned more than once to the question of why he would put himself through the ordeal of so fruitless a campaign.

You've got this ocean full of oil and these tiny little skimmers that don't appear to be moving, and it looked so fruitless".

His time in the Premier League, on a reported £30,000 ($45,000) a week salary, has been so fruitless that he is likely to feature in 'waste of money' lists for years to come.

I didn't bother mentioning it, because it felt so fruitless, but while corresponding with you, I have also been corresponding with what I think is a robot at Hotmail.

I don't know how many more of these "concept" stores there are, but I go in there only if I'm after something the smaller store doesn't stock, and even then I regularly dump my half-filled basket at the exit in frustration, so long have I spent wandering and so fruitless the search.

This has prompted another round of so far fruitless diplomacy.

It was the latest phase of a painstaking — yet so far fruitless — effort to locate the plane's flight recorders.

It has been in protracted and so far fruitless negotiations with the IMF and the European Union for a stand-by credit arrangement.

During his brief visit to Israel, Biden will discuss the so far fruitless diplomatic efforts with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, U.S. officials said.

Overall, the prisoner deal seems to advertise the advantages of armed resistance versus the PLO's patient, non-violent – but so far fruitless – diplomacy.