resultless
Example Sentences
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Too primitive for the Society into which he had cantered must be his Far-West methods, since rusted over were his hopes and resultless his to-day.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
I often wonder why resultless things sometimes stick in the mind.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Frederick calculated at more than eight hundred thousand men the losses caused to the belligerents by this obstinate and resultless struggle, the fruit of wicked ambition or culpable weaknesses on the part of governments.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
Our plans for intercepting the good man were well laid and successful, but turned out resultless.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The first day passed in a series of resultless encounters between the heads of the columns as they met on the dikes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
