Since then, explorers and geographers have fruitlessly sought to identify Thule based on these scant ancient references.
Utilities had spent decades fruitlessly attempting ways to provide data to homes and businesses over their ubiquitous wires.
She spent hours searching, fruitlessly, for advice on how to fix in-line skates.
For some people, a recession is a good time to take two years off, rather than job-hunt fruitlessly at home.
After her diagnosis, she realized she had been sick for nearly a year, trying fruitlessly to ignore the nightly fevers and back aches.
After searching fruitlessly for something in his field, he decided working a cash register was better than not working at all.
The lag is why you had to wait, fruitlessly, at baggage claim.
But a natural problem arises when the coach is cocooned in the pavilion and the players are fruitlessly employing plan A out in the middle.
But many others understand the tradeoffs in play here and would be thrilled to get the insurance protections for which Democrats have been advocating fruitlessly.
To leave is not just to throw away the years or decades invested in building houses, businesses, farms and communities and to search, perhaps fruitlessly, for new jobs.
Casey, who started on pole, led from front with the result never looking in doubt as Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo -- who had led the series by four points - fruitlessly gave chase.
Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.
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