fruitlessly
Example Sentences
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An inscription at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi fruitlessly warned the oracle’s visitors mêden agan, “nothing too much.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Amidou Diallo, a welder who has been fruitlessly searching for fuel for his generator, fears the shortages could lead to an increase in crime and a worsened security situation.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
“Get out!” the officer yelled at Sánchez, who reached fruitlessly for his helmet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
I know that she spent years fruitlessly searching for her birth mother.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
Born in Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Rabi was the levelheaded physicist who had tartly denounced Strauss’s vendetta against Oppenheimer and had attempted, if fruitlessly, to talk Lawrence and Alvarez down from their starry-eyed pursuit of the Super.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
