"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I put my hand up in a futile effort to hide it.
- "He came here in a futile effort to rescue a failed case."
- His parents had wasted themselves in a futile effort to persuade the King to their cause.
- After a futile effort no attempt was made to turn them back.
- As though someone else were doing it for me, my hand went out in a futile effort to find a pulse.
- It was making futile efforts to climb up after us.
- Many industry experts expect the meeting to be a futile effort.
- She shook her head in a futile effort to clear it and made a grab for common sense.
- "I should think you would find that a futile effort."
- He'd put them to his throat in a futile effort to stay the flow.
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