Thesaurus / unfruitful

unfruitful

How to use unfruitful in a sentence

Yet an age in which great questions were handled by great men could not be either an unfruitful or an uninteresting one.

St. Paul says, "If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."

It is astonishing to see with what facility the vine thrives in a soil apparently so unfruitful.

The process of the fiery judgment consuming the unfruitful vine tree had already begun.

The Parable of the unfruitful vine shows that the nation was good for nothing, and burning awaited the city.

Unfruitful branches must be cut off, fruitful ones purged—to produce more fruit—dead ones burned.

This strangely-revived acquaintance with Job Thornberry was not an unfruitful incident in the life of Endymion.

ENDYMIONBENJAMIN DISRAELI

On that side of the valley she was delicately unfruitful, spent with rearing the fine, thin beauty of the woods.

They are not different species of a genus, since in that case their hybrid descendants would remain unfruitful.

We grudge that the boundless exuberance of painting should go to decorate the argumentation of an unfruitful system of doctrine.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985