fruitless search

Fruitless search; and when I got back, they were all dead.

I have found it, after all these years of fruitless searching.

An hour later, after a fruitless search of Paul's office, they left for the bank.

The result is an annual, fruitless search for a new approach they all can live with.

"When we had no hard evidence, why did you join me in what could have been a fruitless search?"

So began a long, fruitless search for an outside engineer.

She spent the next three hours in a fruitless search through the Stacks.

Thus, after six months of fruitless searching, the two leads were found on the same day.

The day's fruitless searching was over with the dying of the light.

After a week of fruitless searching they returned one late afternoon.

Nine months of fruitless searching have made that increasingly clear.

Boyd is ready to give up his fruitless search for gold.

After another 20 minutes or so of fruitless searching, we decide to stop and get advice.

They quickly fanned out and did a fruitless search of the ground floor.

"We can waste no more time in a fruitless search.

At first it was a fruitless search, for the Plain seemed empty.

And after a fruitless search for me, she lowered her head in defeat.

After their short, fruitless search they would continue on their way.

Everyone was back from what had proved largely fruitless searches.

The hunters came back from their fruitless search with the fall of darkness.

The second movement is a completely fruitless search that ends by giving in.

Taking pity, she fell to her knees in a fruitless search.

A figure enters his room and conducts a fruitless search.

At the end of another day's busy, fruitless search, he's reluctant to go to bed.

Since he has light hair and very dark eyes, this has been a fruitless search.