"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The people at risk are children, and euphemisms for the word "children" are regularly used in this context because of a hypocritical, cowardly attempt to avoid the disturbing image of children having intercourse.
- The Indonesian foreign ministry described the attack as a sorry and cowardly attempt at intimidating Indonesia, and said Indonesia would not succumb to such a threat.
- That is a shameful enough act for any Tarlan to perform because it is considered to be a cowardly and dishonorable attempt to diminish personal guilt and avoid just punishment.
- A low and cowardly attempt to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker!
- A short second encounter with the pirates alleviates Obelix's boredom, despite their cowardly attempt at retreat.
- I fail to detect a single healthy impulse in the cowardly attempt to transcend the physical world.
- The supposition was that this cowardly attempt had been perpetrated, or certainly instigated, by the Jorths.
- During the Sunday Word's painstaking investigations, the minister made a cowardly and dishonourable attempt to throw us off the scent.
- Instead, he had left assassins within the bounds who attacked General Marius in the dark in a cowardly attempt at murder.
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