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Meanings of prove fruitless in English

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Usage of prove fruitless in English
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It is possible that much of this additional spending would prove fruitless.
The Irish Times
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He had received several telegrams, indicating which avenues of enquiry would prove fruitless.
Anno Dracula
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Kind Providence had willed that her search should not prove fruitless.
The Waif of the "Cynthia"
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She entreats Maurice to discontinue a search which must prove fruitless.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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Had this been their plan, their errand would have been likely to prove fruitless.
The Boy Hunters
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It seems evident from that action that negotiating with the Lords themselves will prove fruitless.
Book Three: The Final Exodus
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Do thou, therefore name some boon so that all this labour of thine may not prove fruitless.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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Or would all his labor prove fruitless?
Tarzan the Untamed
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And Suffolk, knowing his wilfulness, and that all remonstrance would prove fruitless, retraced his steps with him.
Windsor Castle
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Reuters reported on Thursday that the company could soon file for bankruptcy if the restructuring talks prove fruitless.
Reuters
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Efforts to get some of his dramas accepted by the Leipzig and Dresden theatres continued to prove fruitless.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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But it was asphyxia, it was immediate death, if the result of this last attempt should prove fruitless.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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It did not prove fruitless.
Small wars: a novel
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Beholding his arrowy showers prove fruitless, Ashvatthama hurled at him a long dart blazing like a flame of fire.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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He was at no pains to conceal the intense disappointment which he would experience, were his errand to prove fruitless.
I Will Repay
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Though he had been exerting himself to obtain their pardon, he knew too well that his efforts might prove fruitless.
Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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