futile search

Examples (10)

• Despite their best efforts, it was a futile search for the lost key.
• The rescue team conducted a futile search for survivors in the rubble.
• After hours of looking, they realized their search was futile.
• He embarked on a futile search for happiness in material possessions.
• The police called off the futile search for the escaped convict.
• It proved to be a futile search, as the document had been destroyed.
• She spent the entire day on a futile search for a rare book.
• The scientist's futile search for a perpetual motion machine ended in disappointment.
• All attempts at finding the truth turned into a futile search.
• The company's futile search for a loophole in the law was unsuccessful.