"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The attempt backfired when instead of taking a shot at goal, a try was scored.
- The attempt backfires resulting in the death of the two Latinos.
- His attempt to hire a former prosecutor for her possible influence with that office has backfired.
- But his attempt at outrage backfires when the show becomes a hit.
- But any attempt at a quick fix would probably backfire.
- In either case, he said, the attempt would backfire.
- The attempt to embarrass her backfired: She stayed in the race.
- But Shock insisted that any attempt to make an issue of it would backfire.
- "Dad's attempt to make us do what he wants could backfire," Jake said.
- Intense attempts to persuade someone at this stage to stop often backfire.
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