"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This was because a strained and unnecessary attempt was made to have the parts add up.
- This is not another marketing gimmick, nor a strained attempt to make classical music hip.
- "When I'm off-duty, my personality changes," said Gersen, in a strained attempt at facetiousness.
- It had been remodeled in a black-silver-green Art Deco style that was nothing like the adjacent restaurant, a strained attempt to be chic.
- Duncan said, with a strained attempt at a smile.
- "Let's get going," she said when the last person was seated and the strained attempt at chat ended.
- Updated settings of operatic staples sometimes seem strained attempts for relevance by stumped directors.
- "It leads to odd, strained attempts to revive some sense of community by connecting to the past almost with a religious bent," he said.
- In Bristol, he became known more for his strained attempts at humour and unstylish clothes than for his writing.
- Reading pols' strained attempts at steamy scenes is discomfiting.
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