Wondering how to use Fruitlessly in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as profitably or fruitfully.
Fruitlessly meaning
In a fruitless manner.
Synonyms of Fruitlessly
Using Fruitlessly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a fruitless manner.
- Useful related words include: unproductively, unprofitably, profitably, fruitfully.
- In the example corpus, fruitlessly often appears in combinations such as: ended fruitlessly, fruitlessly for.
Context around Fruitlessly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fruitlessly
- In this selection, "fruitlessly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ended, applied, far, kim and waiting stand out and add context to how "fruitlessly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after fruitlessly waiting for and dennis jenson fruitlessly to thailand. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fruitlessly" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fruitlessly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A long Raiders possession kicked off the second quarter but it ended fruitlessly. (13 words)
Claude Maddox was questioned fruitlessly by Chicago Police, and there the matter lay. (13 words)
While the 2019 Hanoi Summit ended fruitlessly, Kim believes he maintains a certain level of bond with the former president. (20 words)
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. (45 words)
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. (38 words)
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. (30 words)
Example sentences (9)
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.
Common combinations with fruitlessly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: