fruitlessness

Example Sentences

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Something in him wanted to add to an international conversation about war’s fruitlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

In Kathleen Parker’s Sept. 1 op-ed on the fruitlessness of war, “Two different wars; one haunting question,” she noted the respective number of American service members lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan: 58,000 to 2,352.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

The apparent fruitlessness of the Central Office’s expeditions has not escaped scrutiny in the German press.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017

The fruitlessness of endlessly fine-tuning your self-image—of frantically trying to echolocate your personhood against someone else’s story, real or fictional—is baked into every episode of the show.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2017

Convinced of the fruitlessness of his attempts, the Primate at once dispatched Count Dietrich to Cluny, to inform the Pontiff of the danger with which he was threatened.

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von