How To Use fruitlessly In A Sentence
- To Jim Holden, Denny was simply fussing fruitlessly and absurdly with an ordinary "ant-hill," as he persisted in miscalling a termitary. The Raid on the Termites
- Hai!” switching the camel, and fruitlessly endeavouring to fustigate Mas’ud’s nephew, who resolutely slept upon the water-bags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- He was sure sleep would evade him, with his mind still spinning fruitlessly on its search for information that wasn't there.
- fruitless" for fruitlessly, which is so far a defect, the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1
- A British cruiser chased us fruitlessly for two days off Sierra Leone, and enabled me not only to test the sailing qualities, but to get the _sailing trim_ of the "Estrella," in perfection. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
- ‘I think knowledge is a good thing,’ she says, fruitlessly rummaging for cigarettes in a trendy looking rucksack.
- The couple were arrested at the airport while agents searched their bags fruitlessly to find spades for disinterring Monroe's corpse, and jailed for 12 hours before being flown home. Al Murray on the Twitter joke trial: 'Problem is, the law don't do funny'
- But the printer kept making streaky things on the paper, so I fruitlessly spent a half hour trying to fix that.
- During the Sugar Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin and other prominent Pennsylvanians repeatedly and fruitlessly petitioned the colonial government to take action against taverns and drinking. A Renegade History of the United States
- I drank close to a bottle of Chablis the other day while they hammered away fruitlessly at half a dozen natives.
