How to Use fruitless in a Sentence

fruitless

adjective

• They made a fruitless attempt to find a solution.
• It would be fruitless to continue.
• But so much time had passed that much of the search was fruitless.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
• Hours have passed on the boat, and again and again our casts have been fruitless.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
• But the search for these stars has been long and fruitless for many, many years.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• More than two years of on-and-off talks with Ford were fruitless.
  — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• Settlers first made their way to the area in 1865 in a fruitless search for gold.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• And for the past ten years, these efforts have proved fruitless.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
• Kershaw led the fruitless brigade to convince Ohtani to join the Dodgers.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• They were presumed dead as the search remained fruitless at the time.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• The keypad was broken, and all attempts to type in the code were fruitless.
  — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• There have been plenty of chances for teams to break that streak, but all have been fruitless.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
• Efforts to find out on her own have been fruitless, too.
  — Mary Spicuzza, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
• His initial efforts to break out of the Bond mold proved fruitless.
  — Manori Ravindran, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• The damage was done; my offers to give him more time or to choose for him were fruitless.
  — Sheeka Sanahori, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
• Love flickers among the ruins, in the form of a brief, fruitless reunion with Bin.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
• Cano had longed to be a father, and to that point, the couple’s efforts to have a child had been fruitless.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• Officials had hoped to open it by the end of 2016, but a fruitless search for a site pushed the city’s timeline.
  — Vernal Coleman, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
• Hifter is based in eastern Libya and has waged a long and so far fruitless campaign to defeat the GNA.
  — Zakaria Zakaria, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• But that hardly means the attempt is fruitless, Smith added.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• After two years of Tony La Russa proved fruitless, what is there to lose?
  — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• The customer will still have to spot the specific product, but won’t have to wander the store in a fruitless search.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the hunt can be arduous and fruitless in some cases.
  — Alex Leary, WSJ, 22 June 2019
• However, Solana is looking like the cool kid on the blockchain right now, so this ethereum play might prove fruitless.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• That proved fruitless in the downpour and seven minutes later, the decision was made to put the tarp on the field.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• The Penguins pulled even four seconds after the end of a fruitless power play.
  — Helene Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• At one point, Richarlison won the ball, sprinted upfield on a promising counter with three team-mates for company, but instead dived in a fruitless attempt to win a free kick and waste some time.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, which have been mediated at times by the U.S., have been largely fruitless outside of prisoner exchanges.
  — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 21 June 2025