| The war went on as bloodily as monotonously and fruitlessly, but the face of Europe had lately altered. |
| The Carlow lads found themselves toiling fruitlessly against a well-organised Killoughternane outfit during the early exchanges. |
| May it not pass by fruitlessly, but rather carry us, truly renewed, to the joy of Easter. |
| But the printer kept making streaky things on the paper, so I fruitlessly spent a half hour trying to fix that. |
| The best policy is for the development of less promising medicines to be stopped quickly, resulting in fewer means being fruitlessly expended. |
| He was sure sleep would evade him, with his mind still spinning fruitlessly on its search for information that wasn't there. |
