"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The remainder of her service was in the Mediterranean, mostly connected with the continual attempts to resupply Malta.
- There are many old maps and texts which mention continual attempts by the Marathas to capture this fort.
- Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
- Ardent and Acasta made continual attempts to launch torpedoes at the German ships.
- He must watch her as falconers watch hawks that "bate and beat," fluttering their wings in continual attempts to get free.
- Writer Philip Snow describes it thus: "a continual attempt to sustain a rhetorical unity which has sometimes disguised the pursuit of profoundly different goals".
- Pneumatic motors have found widespread success in the hand-held tool industry, and continual attempts are being made to expand their use to the transportation industry.
- Which further tells me that the studios' continual attempts to pitch all problems as result of piracy are, at best, wildly mistaken.
- They frequently act in a very sexual or seductive manner in their continual attempt to win people's attention and affection.
- His continual attempts to run away from home - indicative of an unhappy childhood - are totally ignored by his auditors.
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