Examples of 'were fruitless' in a sentence

Meaning of "were fruitless"

were fruitless: This phrase is used to describe efforts, actions, or attempts that did not achieve the desired results or were ultimately unsuccessful

How to use "were fruitless" in a sentence

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were fruitless
Negotiations were fruitless for most of the strike.
Subsequent attempts to inspect the package were fruitless.
The negotiations were fruitless and were futile.
I am sorry to say that your efforts were fruitless.
Those last six months were fruitless and this trip was useless.
Efforts of friends today to find him were fruitless.
The tests were fruitless.
His appeals to the military authorities were fruitless.
Both were fruitless.
All other efforts to reach him were fruitless.
Efforts to revive him were fruitless and he was pronounced dead a few minutes after.
Efforts to cope with the plague were fruitless.
However, these efforts were fruitless for many years.
All efforts made to engage in constructive dialogue were fruitless.
All these efforts were fruitless.

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Ifalna refused to cooperate and their efforts were fruitless.
But his searches were fruitless.
All efforts to bring about an understanding between the government and the opposition were fruitless.
But my efforts were fruitless.
Shooting from an unstable platform all but guaranteed that long distances attacks were fruitless.
Their actions were fruitless.
All attempts to discover who he was or where he came from were fruitless.
At this time, talks were fruitless.
Efforts to get assistance from the organizers and elsewhere were fruitless.
His efforts, however, were fruitless.
My efforts to show him all of the evidence to the contrary were fruitless.
My efforts to open the panel were fruitless.
Attempts of moving the trial to the court in Vienna were fruitless.
Efforts to contact the plane were fruitless.
All later attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless.
Her efforts to get help were fruitless.
Over the next several hours, however, attempts at communicating with Peters were fruitless.
However, the discussions were fruitless.
The efforts of the Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn, who had rented the line for a time, were fruitless.
I had tried plenty of things, all of which were fruitless endeavors . ”.
Meanwhile, a European diplomat who was briefed on Molho 's talks in Washington said they were fruitless.
Her efforts, though valiant, were fruitless.
My efforts the next rnorning to open the panel were fruitless.
Inquiries at the police stations were fruitless.
All my attempts at calming down were fruitless.
Two days of searching documents and text were fruitless.
Most of the locales we fished were fruitless.
Her attempts to talk to them were fruitless.
My efforts next morning to open the panel were fruitless.
The negotiations with Tilly also were fruitless.
Similar searches in the British archives were fruitless.
It should be noted that the usual Windows compatibility hacks were fruitless.
Most of the time, our efforts were fruitless.
His enthusiasm waned ; his writing efforts were fruitless.
For more than a decade, his efforts were fruitless.

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