"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

attempt verbo

attempt + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 27
attempt suicide • attempt a comeback • attempt an escape • attempt a thing • attempt murder • ...
verbo + attempt
Kolokacji: 9
decide to attempt • go to attempt • die attempting • begin attempting • caught attempting • ...
attempt + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
attempt to • attempt at • attempt in • attempt with • attempt on • ...
attempt + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 46
unsuccessfully attempt • later attempt • initially attempt • repeatedly attempt • once attempt • ...
(3) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
  • Rather than give senators the information they need, his supporters have repeatedly attempted to change the subject.
  • Gopnik repeatedly attempts to explain the game to his son throughout the book.
  • Since 1992, developers have repeatedly attempted to build a strip mall in the area.
  • The town had repeatedly attempted to acquire the territory, but to no avail.
  • She'd tapped him with her fan more than several times when he'd repeatedly attempted to press his attentions.
  • He is an innocent young boy who Chuck repeatedly attempts to manipulate and corrupt.
  • At least 129 civilians died and 415 were wounded during the crisis as the Russian special forces repeatedly attempted to free the hostages by force.
  • The guerrillas repeatedly attempted to overpower Lee and his men, but failed each time.
  • Colorado miners had repeatedly attempted to unionize since the state's first strike in 1883.
  • Reportedly, the tokronauts have repeatedly attempted to kill various people through "spiritual means".
(4) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(6) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2

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