fruitlessly
Example Sentences
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Each personal history is sketched with a revealing touch: Robbie, returned from war, had “loitered, not entirely fruitlessly, on the fringes of the London literary world, until coming to Honor via a family connection.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“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
The allies—some of whom are the ones tirelessly but fruitlessly negotiating the terms of a cease-fire—clearly want the war to stop.
From Slate ● May 13, 2024
For a quarter hour I sat on my bed, enjoying the quiet and trying fruitlessly to think of new ways to break the curse.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
