adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fruitless search (= an unsuccessful one )
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I spent many hours in a fruitless search for accommodation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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This week, be ready for irritating news and yet another fruitless attempt at communication.
exercise
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Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise .
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The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise .
search
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He's suffering from dehydration because of his fruitless search for water.
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Long have I combed the vilest quarters of this town on fruitless search for thee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After weeks of fruitless argument they finally agreed to go their separate ways.
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I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search of her room.
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Rescue efforts have been called off after three days of fruitless searching.
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Their attempt to settle the dispute by peaceful negotiations proved fruitless .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And why has the determined search for alternatives proved so fruitless ?
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But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless .
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Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.
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Program evaluation is commonly thought of as a dry, fruitless endeavor, extolled in theory but ignored in practice.
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The result is a crippling and ever-growing burden of fruitless debt.
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These discussions proved fruitless , with each side blaming the other for the failure to resolve the growing crisis.
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When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads.