fruitlessly search
Frequency: 4.50.5 per million words
to look for someone or something without success
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Examples (10)
- After the storm, volunteers fruitlessly searched the shoreline for the missing hiker.
- I fruitlessly searched my inbox for the confirmation email that never arrived.
- The team fruitlessly searched the archives, but the original blueprint had been lost.
- She fruitlessly searched the crowded station for a familiar face.
- For hours they fruitlessly searched the attic, turning up nothing but dust.
- Detectives fruitlessly searched for a motive, finding no link between the suspects.
- He fruitlessly searched online forums hoping someone had solved the same error.
- We fruitlessly searched the garden at dusk, calling the cat’s name into the chill air.
- Astronomers once fruitlessly searched for evidence of the hypothesized planet.
- They fruitlessly searched every pocket and drawer before realizing the keys were in the car.