"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His advertising executive in Lost in America has zero insight into himself, but he's still an idealist who boldly attempts to live out the escapist fantasies of his generation: He has--as buffoons go--enormous stature.
- Truth, a young man, admires Love, while Selfishness, another maiden who is found in the same society with Love, but whose father and mother are Hatred and Envy, living in the Home of Unhappiness, boldly attempts to attract the young man to herself.
- Casey demanded administrative control of the campaign, but had no desire to control policy and by extension the personnel choices of the Reagan Administration-something John Sears was boldly attempting to control.
- Ibn Habib boldly attempted to turn the western half of the Islamic Caliphate into his private Fihrid empire.
- After both of the Tuskers' first two scores in the first quarter, they boldly attempted an onside kick and successfully recovered both.
- During the game on January 1, 1960, Davis boldly attempts to lead his team to victory but is hampered by an injured leg and biased officiating.
- This show boldly attempts to establish his importance on the basis of a single 1963 work: an assemblage of 12 shallow steel troughs (each 60 inches long, 40 inches wide, and 4 inches high), arranged in a three-by-four grid.
- Also concerned that Germany would face a war on two fronts as plans progressed for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union scheduled to take place in spring 1941, Hess decided to boldly attempt to bring Britain to the negotiating table by travelling there himself to seek meetings with the British government.
- When Pia boldly attempts to seduce Marcus, he accepts her advances.
- Reviewing the EP for Allmusic, Eduardo Rivadavia states that Lions "boldly attempts to straddle the hard rock decades" making comparisons to the bands ZZ Top, Queens of the Stone Age, Nebula and Fu Manchu.
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