"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The officers of the French Guards made ineffectual attempts to rally their men.
- After many ineffectual attempts, I succeeded at last, and bore my half-pail of milk in triumph to the house.
- She made some ineffectual attempts to undress further, gave it up and groggily got into bed.
- At the loss of a second daughter, Mary makes an ineffectual attempt at suicide and is briefly institutionalized.
- I had made an ineffectual last second attempt to close the airlock.
- The manager made an ineffectual attempt to stop him, but finally pressed the lift button.
- After several ineffectual attempts Jean counted eleven horses, every one of which he was sure bore a rider.
- The family frequently laughs at his "failing" memory and his "ineffectual" attempts to get what he wants.
- Here he made an ineffectual attempt to convert his former friend de Lamennais.
- She made several ineffectual attempts to convert the King.
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