1. Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.

2. It was a fruitless search.

3. Talks have so far have been fruitless.

4. Their search for the plane is fruitless.

5. Dunbar's departure rendered the whole operation quite fruitless.

6. So far,(sentencedict.com) their search has been fruitless.

7. Our efforts to persuade her were fruitless she didn't even listen.

8. The search proved fruitless.

9. I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search for a replacement.

10. I spent a fruitless ten minutes walking up and down the high street, desperately avoiding eye contact with passers-by.

11. After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.

12. After ten hours of fruitless negotiations, he stormed out of the meeting in exasperation.

13. After repeated but fruitless demands for payment, he brought a suit against the debtor.

14. If talking proves fruitless, talk to your mum.

15. Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.

16. And I think it's fruitless going on about blame and suspicion and guilt.

17. When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.

18. A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931.

19. After weeks of fruitless argument they finally agreed to go their separate ways.

20. So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.

21. Attempts to reach a mutually agreed solution had been fruitless.

22. All diplomatic attempts at a peaceful solution to the crisis have been fruitless.

23. But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless.

24. And why has the determined search for alternatives proved so fruitless?

25. I recognise that practitioners will in some cases incur fruitless costs in the search for such a vital clue where none exists.

26. This week, be ready for irritating news and yet another fruitless attempt at communication.

27. When a recipe calls for tamarind or jalapeno chillies, save fruitless searching in local shops by calling Deliline.

28. But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family, especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand.

29. The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

30. Satan, who finds work for idle hands to do, also fills idle minds with fruitless speculation.