"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was ambitious in size but not remarkably different from other smaller, tentative efforts under way elsewhere.
- I frowned, making a tentative effort to touch her mind.
- But it also came after a few tentative efforts to restart contacts.
- She was developing an interest in social and educational service and making tentative efforts at literature.
- She mustered her strength, made a tentative effort at moving, and found she could do so.
- After he got his emotions under control, he made a few tentative efforts to communicate with my sister and me.
- It is a tentative effort at first, since the children recognize that they are still largely dependent.
- He swung his legs from the table, making a tentative effort to stand.
- He made tentative efforts to go, but seemed awkwardly rooted to the spot.
- And when he held out the cloth to Tigris, she made a tentative effort to help him.
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