"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead the ravages of terminal cancer were apparent, as were the rather pathetic and grotesque attempts to ignore them.
- One knew he was a ferocious creature because of his harsh gestures, rapid hoppings and grotesque attempts to balance on one leg.
- He will see in them grotesque attempts of nature to foretell or to repeat himself.
- "We have the Brilliant Pebbles, sir," the Secretary of Defense said with a grotesque attempt at confidence.
- Fyodor has come here unasked and spewed a torrent of cruel fantastic nonsense in a grotesque attempt at bludgeoning her into bed.
- Instead, in a grotesque attempt to explain, he dragged back his face with his hands into a hideous mask, and bared his teeth.
- But it was even harder to picture one of the territorial nations planning such a grotesque attempt at world conquest.
- The dog reached the edge of his shelf and made a grotesque attempt to launch himself in the direction from which he had heard Waldo's voice.
- I made still other almost equally grotesque attempts to express this doglike affection.
- The Socialists barred him from meetings, and Pat Cox, the Parliament's president, dismissed his campaign as a "grotesque attempt to maximize personal publicity."
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