"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The inert syntactic form gave him no clue, but still he felt his throat thrum with pointless attempts at verbal articulation.
- Didn't they realize he had more important things to do than let them pass by in their pointless attempts to preserve their own insignificant existences?
- It is a much pointless attempt to create a machine that mimics the behavior and intelligent level of a human being.
- In a pointless attempt to calm her down, I deliberately favored my right hand while we talked.
- I tapped my foot on the floor in a pointless attempt to alleviate the mounting tension.
- She could abuse her mind no longer with pointless attempts to remember.
- Uh-oh, Ezri thought, and she immediately started walking forward in a pointless attempt to cover up her eavesdropping.
- I was trying not to dwell on what had happened since Val's murder, but it was a pointless attempt.
- In Britain, a majority of voters no longer believe in man-made climate change and they will not pay for futile and pointless attempts at mitigation.
- The second quatrain continues this theme on mankind's pointless attempts.
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