"bid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Well, Quintus wanted his freedom, even if he wasted it in a vain bid to return to Rome.
- The Bank of England squandered a huge chunk of Britain's precious foreign currency reserves in a vain bid to prop it up.
- Mr Lamont's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped.
- Ammunition became in short supply, and many fighters left the army in order to travel to their homes in a vain bid to protect their families.
- As its forelegs went over the edge, the long arms shot out, scored the ice on the far side in a vain bid for purchase.
- She rubbed the back of her hand over her mouth in a vain bid to obliterate the taste and touch of his lips still tingling on hers.
- Göring ordered that they be renamed "offensive circles" in a vain bid to improve rapidly declining morale.
- His intestines started to slide out, and he doubled over in a vain bid to stem the fatal flow.
- The hordebeasts packed inside the tunnel fought each other madly in a vain bid to escape the contents of the cauldrons.
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