"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The expedition made its way back north, where it narrowly escaped an ambush attempt arranged by the Basques in the pass of Roncevaux thanks to the precautions he took, i.e. hostages.
- This time I crossed back and forth to throw off any possible ambush attempts that may have been waiting ahead.
- An ambush attempt fails, so he deserts the Army and flees.
- The ambush attempt reportedly left one militant dead.
- Somali military troops and their Ethiopian army allies fend off an Al-Shabaab ambush attempt in an area between the southern towns of Luuq and Garbaharey.
- The murders came after an earlier ambush attempt by Al-Shabaab against Somali and Kenyan soldiers.
- He is shot in the stomach during an ambush attempt on the General in "The Price", but Sara rescues him by removing the bullet.
- Remembering his previous encounter with Yoville, specifically an ambush attempt by the pirate leader, Ryan refuses the offer, and shoots the two accompanying pirate commanders dead.
- After following a band of Indians into the Ohio country, a failed ambush attempt resulted in the band chasing Brady near the Cuyahoga River.
- But the ambush attempt was broken by a policeman who saw them act suspiciously and proceeded to try to investigate them by following them in his patrol car.
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