fruitless
infructuous literary

Fruitless or no, we had come too far to leave without trying.

All the work of only a few minutes, and fruitless.

What could be more fruitless than to go further into such a city?

But efforts to get him to the table were fruitless.

It is probably fruitless to hope for an answer to this question.

A second day, and a third, the same fruitless attempt was made.

The pressure was too great, and our efforts were fruitless.

He went through a long, fruitless battle to take his name off.

After an hour of fruitless labor, I asked for help.

I knew deep down it was fruitless to try and change his mind.

They'll have my head if they make a fruitless trip.

It is a fruitless activity, but all she can think to do.

How can he ever assume such a long and fruitless history?

After a few more minutes of fruitless walking, they stopped again.

He said that effort, fruitless so far, was expected to end this week.

An impossible question to answer, but perhaps not a fruitless one to ask.

So far, her quest to find them has been fruitless.

After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick.

When and how were fruitless questions whose answers changed nothing.

It would also, he believed, have been fruitless to do so.

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

Trying to get a live customer service person on the phone was fruitless after 20 minutes.

I see this as a rather fruitless line of inquiry.

They waited a long fruitless hour during which nothing changed.

None of the fruitless battle he had thought to offer.