"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He attacks her as she vainly attempts to fight him off.
- Then he vainly attempted to rest for a while before returning to the bridge.
- His mind reeled, vainly attempting to make sense of what he saw.
- "I'm sure you'd rather visit with your family," she said, vainly attempting to extricate herself from his hold on her arm.
- At these words he went out, after my vainly attempting to stop him by throwing myself at his feet.
- In 1741, the Prussians vainly attempted to conquer the town.
- Beyond the table a group of minstrels were vainly attempting to make their music heard over the din.
- Here they remained for ages, vainly attempting to devise a means of returning to their own system.
- There is nothing more pathetic than a gentleman of middle age who vainly attempts to behave like a youth.
- My feverish hand has vainly attempted to describe upon paper its strange and wonderful details.
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