How to Use fruitless in a Sentence

fruitless

adjective

• They made a fruitless attempt to find a solution.
• It would be fruitless to continue.
• Knapp’s attempt to procure records from Kirk-Mayer proved fruitless.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• Cutting interest rates and nudging banks to lend, for example, will prove fruitless...
  — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2020
• Developers were frustrated that their attempts to solve the problem on their own were fruitless.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 7 May 2020
• The immediate search for Albino was fruitless, and the case went cold for seven decades.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
• Those city lawsuits proved expensive, time-consuming and fruitless.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• But the letter appears to have been fruitless as the title went on to screen at Telluride Film Festival last month.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2024
• Vallow hadn't paid for the storage unit since the beginning of the year, and the facility told police its attempts to contact her were fruitless, court records said.
  — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 22 Feb. 2020
• Marion officials made fruitless attempts to create space.
  — Dara Lind, ProPublica, 18 June 2020
• Unfortunately for Tony, his idol hunt was fruitless, and Natalie found the idol instead.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2020
• Resorting to trapping tactics on defense, the Falcons’ gambles proved fruitless.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 29 Feb. 2020
• But when nonviolent protests and legislative channels prove fruitless or are met with violence, new tactics might be necessary.
  — Anna L. Peterson, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• Although these efforts proved fruitless, the emperor likely aspired to continue his supremacy after death.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• But Manfred and others in baseball apparently determined that was going to be either fruitless or maybe result in a witch hunt.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
• Individual attempts at action have also proven fruitless.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
• But so much time had passed that much of the search was fruitless.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
• But the search for these stars has been long and fruitless for many, many years.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• They were presumed dead as the search remained fruitless at the time.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• The keypad was broken, and all attempts to type in the code were fruitless.
  — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• Efforts to find out on her own have been fruitless, too.
  — Mary Spicuzza, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
• His initial efforts to break out of the Bond mold proved fruitless.
  — Manori Ravindran, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• Cano had longed to be a father, and to that point, the couple’s efforts to have a child had been fruitless.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• Hifter is based in eastern Libya and has waged a long and so far fruitless campaign to defeat the GNA.
  — Zakaria Zakaria, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• But that hardly means the attempt is fruitless, Smith added.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• After two years of Tony La Russa proved fruitless, what is there to lose?
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The customer will still have to spot the specific product, but won’t have to wander the store in a fruitless search.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• That proved fruitless in the downpour and seven minutes later, the decision was made to put the tarp on the field.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• Rei: Just trying to revive old music all the time would be fruitless.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2024
• Still, the Jaguars had opportunities that proved fruitless, putting two on with one out in the eighth and loading the bases with two out in the ninth.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024