"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "I had no idea my little humorous attempt to find a stable roommate in West Hollywood three years ago had achieved such objectionable notoriety," he said in an e-mail message.
- "Laughing Matters" (1987) describes, classifies and analyzes comedy in Sanskrit literature and, in its last 60 pages, reports Siegel's humorous attempts to gather pop-culture comic materials in contemporary India.
- The spelling in the letter was abysmal, the formation of the letters and words clumsy, resembling a child's humorous first attempts at penmanship.
- They drank beer and both smoked another cigarette after several humorous attempts at lighting up in the face of a stiff wind.
- Sledging is usually simply an often humorous, sometimes insulting attempt at distraction.
- Most of the rest of the plot deals with Bugs' humorous attempts to evade Millicent's romantic advances; Bugs is often thwarted by a gun-wielding Elmer.
- A humorous attempt to become "the smartest person in the world" by reading all 32 volumes of the Encylopedia Britannica.
- He found himself watching Trima, even as he laughed and ate and made humorous attempts to communicate through gesture.
- I was going to use the opportunity to post a self-written, almost humorous, nearly scanning attempt at poetry but HenryLloydMoon has beaten me to it.
- It is described by Ubukata as "a humorous attempt at combining d'Eon de Beaumont, eighteenth century France, and a superhero story."
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