1 When they had fruitlessly exhausted their task, Myeloski called the caretaker to guide them round the rest of the palace.

2 Grabbing fruitlessly at bulrush stalks, which snap like chicken bones, he crashes face down into the mud.

3 Terrified, they seek fruitlessly for a means of escape from their hunters.

4 Was 1, fed on formula from birth, fruitlessly searching for a suitable pacifier at twenty-three?

5 Four years of negotiation ended fruitlessly last December.

6 After years of waiting fruitlessly for the housing market to cool, Zhu and Jia decided to get married this year, prodded by their friends and parents and conscious of passing time.

7 Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher.

8 Her niece had been searching fruitlessly for her every day since March 12th.

9 Never spend fruitlessly the last hour of your life because it can become the most important hour for you.

10 In any case I would not leave fruitlessly, unless you pay and kiss me good bye.

11 "Thinning the Blood, " was also very popular, fruitlessly useless, and sometimes deadly.

12 We searched fruitlessly for thirty minutes until I had a third-degree sunburn on my bald spot.

13 After months of fruitlessly trying to persuade the company to develop drivers for Windows, he wrote, he approached the Adafruit team and asked them to host the competition.

14 Another has been pursuing, expensively and so far fruitlessly,[] assets in Luxembourg and Germany awarded by a London court.

15 Zibbi becomes distressed as he fruitlessly searches for words which might join his isolated personal pronoun and we stop the interview.

16 I fruitlessly examined the three-inch-thick manual on the "complicated simplicity" of the solar and wind systems in the house.

17 Instead of fruitlessly debating models and other assumptions, they can focus on the fundamental trade-offs, fully aware of the surprises that the future may bring.

18 Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest?

19 The mines were owned, Eler said, by private prospectors, some of who had been searching fruitlessly for fifty years.

20 In a statement, the police insisted that they had searched fruitlessly for Mr. Yang, then told his wife he should turn himself in.

21 Otherwise, you will simply succeed in making people desire fruitlessly;and for Freud, to desire fruitlessly is to fall ill of neurosis.

22 It is a mess and it has been debated fruitlessly for years.

23 Before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the company had spent several years fruitlessly trying to develop a modern version of the Macintosh operating system.

24 The donkey became extremely angry and tried hard to kick the tiger but fruitlessly.

25 Mr Triangle is waiting for someone who can open the door, so fruitlessly.

26 The EU's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, who was this week negotiating fruitlessly with Chinese officials, has been more circumspect—so far.