"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then he turned to me and made a ghastly attempt to smile.
- The ghastly attempt at ornamentation only serves to make ridiculous what in the severe simplicity of utility might have been forgiven.
- She waggled a finger at Marianne in a ghastly attempt at playfulness.
- "Oh hello, Siegfried," I said with a ghastly attempt at nonchalance.
- "I'm going to ask you just once more to take my dog's temperature," he whispered with a ghastly attempt at a smile.
- "Yes; and I verily believe it is my last visit," he answered, with a ghastly attempt at a smile.
- Simkin made a ghastly attempt to smile.
- Simkin made a ghastly attempt to smile "Word of honour," I said.
- For a moment Meredith just stood there, trembling, but then she shook her head with a ghastly attempt at a smile.
- There was a ghastly attempt at reassurance in his voice, more terrifying than any attempt to scare him could have been.
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