"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The animal made a ridiculous attempt to crawl into his lap, and he smiled a little as he gently pushed her down.
- It explains a lot of things-especially that ridiculous attempt at creating a truce!
- It may have been a ridiculous attempt, but at least Earl couldn't check himself in a mirror to realize how stupid it looked.
- And he laughed at their ridiculous attempts to be helpful.
- She should be ashamed of both her comment, and her ridiculous attempt at back-peddling.
- 'Nor I,' she countered, in a ridiculous attempt to even the score.
- And in their most ridiculous attempt at charity, they try to tape a packet of money to a donkey.
- He snorted with contempt at their ridiculous attempt to design a reasonable-looking planet.
- The subject is dealt with best by re-showing the original debate and the churches ridiculous attempts at censoreship.
- The proposal in the Berlato report is a ridiculous attempt to get tobacco subsidies extended until at least 2012.
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