"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Actually, the FBI thought that was a rather inept attempt.
- When you discard the inept attempts to invest monarchy with personal glamour, plenty of solid advantages remain.
- When I called on their services earlier this week, I had to reveal my inept attempt at putting up a clock in the kitchen.
- He thought of the red-faced policeman whose inept attempts at law enforcement made him laugh.
- He often makes inept attempts to impress her.
- Dole's few inept attempts to live up to his publicity as a mad slasher were simply embarrassing.
- After a series of inept attempts by the team to seduce her, she finally relents to a date with Ron, culminating in a sexual relationship.
- Their inept attempts to foil his thefts appear altogether too incompetent.
- Our inept attempts at words only run to lists, costs, to assessing blame.
- When confronted by his father, Studs runs away from home, and makes a comically inept attempt at armed robbery.
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