"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Fact: Bob had damaged the navigation-lure in a crude attempt to change course.
- It's obviously a crude attempt at convincing us not to attack.
- But in a crude attempt at social responsibility, the networks chose to turn television into a gallery of role models.
- I agree, although there have been crude but effective attempts.
- I did a preliminary survey, using my flashlight to check for any crude attempts at security.
- This was a crude attempt by the military to disguise the basic injustice of the system.
- He said there had been crude attempts to make the account look short, but that the money was all there.
- They'd just survived a crude attempt by amateurs at a paid "hit."
- Sadly, we need not go far to find similar cases, since crude attempts at assimilation are a real and current problem in Europe, too.
- In her case, there'd been no crude attempt to fake a suicide.
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