"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Others ran over their own men in their frenzied attempt to keep her in sight.
- Airlines cannot keep up, and in their frenzied attempt to do so have subjected passengers to poor service and, what is worse, life-threatening conditions.
- Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
- The tale ends with Jack leading many of the boys in a frenzied attempt to kill Ralph.
- She writhed, a last frenzied attempt to break the force which pinned her.
- The citizens rushed from one bureau to another in a frenzied attempt to meet impossible deadlines.
- Francis of Assisi's mother fought her husband's frenzied attempts to force her boy to advance in society and 'to be a man'.
- He seemed to feel himself to be unworthy of it, for he made two frenzied attempts at escape.
- Did she mean the satyr's frenzied attempts to get through that fortress-girdle?
- It's impossible to see it all, despite all frenzied attempts.
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