Sentence examples similar to were used fruitlessly from inspiring English sources

Here, Twitter was used to fruitlessly debate something with no easy answer.

I'm used to fruitlessly waiting like this for checks or packages I purposely order, but somehow getting these useless trinkets felt especially important to me, and when the mailman turned up empty-handed, it felt especially disappointing.

Despite this latter action, when a fresh arms embargo was imposed on Libya in 2011, it was difficult to take it seriously: by then, the horse had already bolted and Libya's new stocks of weapons were being used – in the end fruitlessly – against the rebel advance.

Opponents protested fruitlessly that Mr. Schroder was using government money to buy votes.

And if so, which?It is a mess and it has been debated fruitlessly for years.

Last time in his chat with Major he was pleading fruitlessly for the scrapping of Section 28.

The report concluded that almost half the money "was spent fruitlessly, breaching established principles of propriety".

The Higgs particle was first postulated more than forty years ago by the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, and has been sought — fruitlessly — at every major collider built since then.

Beyoncé is sitting on the floor, picking desultorily at a plate of food, Michelle is lounging on a couch and Kelly is searching fruitlessly for "lady protection".

But many others understand the tradeoffs in play here and would be thrilled to get the insurance protections for which Democrats have been advocating fruitlessly.

He took it under escort as it moved closer to Europe, while Montagu was searching fruitlessly to the south.