Fruitlessly

But he shot the ball well, moved around, passed when he did not have the shot and competed on defence, no matter how fruitlessly.

A long Raiders possession kicked off the second quarter but it ended fruitlessly.

While the 2019 Hanoi Summit ended fruitlessly, Kim believes he maintains a certain level of bond with the former president.

He’d told of how he spent 500 hours in English language classes, volunteered at South East Links in Springvale, applied fruitlessly for hundreds of jobs, and he’d been kicked out of Monash University because he could no longer afford to pay course fees.

Palestinians and their foreign supporters have called, so far fruitlessly, on countries to shun the Tel Aviv songfest as part of wider efforts to isolate Israel internationally.

Old Lodge Skins only stayed up on his funeral platform for a day or so waiting fruitlessly for death; Berna has lain in that bed for almost five years now.

After fruitlessly waiting for the Sultan's reaction, they returned to the ships and prepared a junk (offered by Chinese merchants), filling it with men, artillery and sandbags.

Claude Maddox was questioned fruitlessly by Chicago Police, and there the matter lay.

He learned this only after having sent Dennis Jenson fruitlessly to Thailand (where he concluded that the airman was "mentally unbalanced") and then, after receiving a second untrue letter from the man, going himself to Thailand with Jenson.