"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One time the Indians set a grass fire in an apparent attempt to burn out the white settlers.
- The police said that in the course of their operation three people reported to them the apparent attempts at bribery.
- This fact, added to the apparent attempts of the Chinese to get the other two to mate - that might be significant.
- Also, there is no apparent attempt to achieve regional, national, or ethnic balance.
- Police officials said that three men began firing in an apparent attempt to rob the two officers.
- The old woman's arms lay across the child's body in an apparent last minute attempt to shield her.
- Their apparent attempt at reparation had come too late to be effective.
- This was an apparent attempt to remove the low rent tenants so the land could be developed.
- She does this in an apparent attempt to control his life.
- The company released the news a day earlier than scheduled in an apparent attempt to stabilize its stock price.
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