fruitlessly try
Frequency: 5.00.8 per million words
to attempt to do something without success
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Examples (10)
- We fruitlessly tried to reach customer support all afternoon.
- She fruitlessly tries to persuade him to apologize.
- They have been fruitlessly trying to fix the bug since Monday.
- I fruitlessly tried to recall his name during the interview.
- He will fruitlessly try to beat the record without proper training.
- The committee fruitlessly tried to reach a consensus before the deadline.
- We shouldn't fruitlessly try to control what we cannot change.
- The team fruitlessly tries to replicate the experiment's results every week.
- I had fruitlessly tried to log in until the system finally locked me out.
- Tourists often fruitlessly try to hail a taxi here during rush hour.