fruitless

Example Sentences

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Officials had given daily media updates at which they have voiced increasing frustration with the so far fruitless manhunt.

From Barron's

But some singles, burned out by fruitless searches for love, are handing control of their dating profiles to the people who keep asking why they aren’t having any luck.

From The Wall Street Journal

This week saw more fruitless talks about ending the war in Ukraine, the head of the OBR resign over a publishing mistake and the King host a glittering state banquet for the German president.

From BBC

She said she thinks it was "cruel" and "quite a fruitless exercise".

From BBC

After two fruitless visits to the station, the couple went to the Prince of Wales Hospital on Friday only to learn that no public hospital had admitted the elderly woman.

From Barron's