"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rita was making one of her vague attempts to tidy it up.
- Thin brown hair lay sideways across his skull in vague attempt to cloak a bald spot.
- The guns of a dozen huge armored vehicles were trained on him without even a vague attempt to be discreet about their caution.
- Above ground the remains of the terminus were cleared away in stages between 1957 and 1960 after a vague attempt at restoration was aborted.
- As usual, the English used and the vague attempts to substantiate their allegations made the lessons ineffective.
- A vague attempt to think of home produced nothing.
- The deal made vague attempts at curbing government deficits this year and next but delayed most of the pain until 1995.
- He was making a vague attempt to keep tabs on the 39 people in his care but had lost them in the crowd.
- A vague attempt of expanding the tiny kitchen was made before the flood of 1986.
- He doesn't look like scoring for a second, takes it too wide in a vague attempt to get around Hart.
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