"bid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Just seven years old, and already she knows she's lost her futile bid for love.
- The constant relocating, he says now, was part of a futile bid to save the marriage: "We kept trying to solve nongeographical problems geographically."
- Even Quebec could put in a futile bid.
- Copperfield had been ambushed by one of the Prattler reporters in the far corner and was gesticulating wildly in a futile bid for freedom.
- In a futile bid to prop up the currency, the Prime Minister tried increasing interest rates by 5 percent in a single day.
- They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention.
- She overheated, so Wood and Hodgson put her under the shower in a futile bid to cool her down.
- They went on to praise "every member of this agency" for making "contributions and sacrifices" to the futile bid to stave off dismissal.
- He died in his futile bid to escape.
- Forsaking his gun, he made a futile bid for the stairs, but the beast's hand unsealed the back of his head in one easy stroke.
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