"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The dog looked round only once - when I made a gentle attempt to Rex the limb - but turned away immediately and stared resolutely ahead.
- "I'll kill him--" "You don't have to, sweetheart," he soothed, jerking her into his arms when she evaded his more gentle attempts to embrace her.
- I Map This Torinese chain's gentle attempt at world domination (there are branches on Broadway and Bleecker) is no reason to dismiss its wares.
- But the eyelids with their fair lashes remained closed, and beyond those gentle attempts at waking him she was afraid to go.
- Erlia did not respond to his gentle attempt at teasing.
- He remains repulsed by her, and ignores her gentle attempts to get to know him better.
- Her gentle attempt at making light of it brought the blood to my face and completed my humiliation.
- In the meantime, even as Democrats made the first gentle attempts to turn the discussion to domestic policy, they were careful to hail the President and the allied victory.
- In a later 1964 news story, Time Magazine would say, "The Atlanta decision was a gentle attempt to accelerate one of the South's best-publicized plans for achieving integration without revolution."
- Doctor, I will be honest with you: you are far, far too in-telligent and far-seeing for me to succeed in my gentle attempt at deception.
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