"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There are currently timid attempts to establish education in their native language in the town of Divjaka.
- After catching the ball, Darius stepped inches over his own goal line in a timid attempt to run back his interception.
- All their timid attempts to forego the extravagant affair are firmly rebuffed by parents whose standard argument verges on blackmail: "Otherwise you won't be happy together."
- He, too, quashed the timid attempt of the more liberal minded of the deputies to obtain a promise from the king of some sort of a constitution.
- These timid attempts at industrialization were interrupted by the Peninsular War.
- When the upheaval finally ceased, there were timid attempts to find out what had been spared and was susceptible of being raised from the ruins.
- Despite a few timid attempts to emulate this literature in English, it can be argued that few writers seem to connect with either the landscape or the literary tradition.
- Mendelssohn's and Wessely's timid attempts to inaugurate a new era did not appeal to him.
- His incisor tooth made a timid attempt to reach daylight but without success.
- To the Editor: Many of the timid, tentative attempts to explain the violence at a Jonesboro, Ark., middle school miss the mark.
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