"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As if a birthday present was going to distract her from the litany of Moira's foiled attempts to settle on a brawn!
- Tweety also serves as a source of ironic humor at times, usually in reference to Sylvester's foiled attempts to eat him.
- Jordan has been a target of foiled terrorist attempts in the past.
- Somehow the foiled attempt on her life had given her new focus, new determination.
- Terrorism experts stopped short of comparing the train plot to the foiled attempt to blow up passenger planes flying from Britain to the United States.
- The Indian government depicted the attack on Parliament as a foiled attempt to slaughter the elected leadership of the world's largest democracy.
- He never quite charged at either Gabriel or Joshua, who were on foot, but instead tried to get around them, showing less patience after each foiled attempt.
- He was arrested following a foiled attempt to steal a car.
- The other is the extraordinary vividness of foiled attempts by criminals to get away from England's shores.
- However there is no evidence of either an attack, or a foiled attempt, on the city.
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