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fruitless attempt

collocation in English

meanings of fruitlessand attempt


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fruitless
adjective
uk /ˈfruːt.ləs/ us /ˈfruːt.ləs/
If an action or attempt to do something is fruitless, it is unsuccessful or produces nothing ...
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attempt
noun[C]
uk /əˈtempt/ us /əˈtempt/
the act of trying to do something, especially ...
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Examples of fruitless attempt


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Any renewal of the alliance would most likely have been a fruitlessattempt to stop the haemorrhaging.
Then, in a fruitlessattempt to cover this up, the suggestion is made of a charter to protect consumers.
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He then resumed his southward course in a second fruitlessattempt to find the supposed continent.
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They were merely ending a fruitlessattempt to save her life.
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After death both bodies and shelters were burned in a rudimentary and fruitlessattempt to control the spread of the disease.
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Snake's fruitlessattempt to save her leaves him with a burn scar.
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Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
After many fruitless attempts to negotiate with the employer, the union held a strike ballot.
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The author recounts his fruitless attempts to make plaster casts of the superb hieroglyphs and gives other curious details.
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A series of fruitless attempts to reopen it in 1986, 1988, and 1990 each ended in closure.
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There were two fruitless attempts at establishing a congress of provinces in the subsequent months.
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Cheenu continues his fruitless attempts to gain her attention.
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His fruitless attempts to prepare the free monofluorophosphoric acid led him to check the stability of its esters.
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