"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Finally he grabbed him by the collar, and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal.
- After this period, he acquired little and made only spasmodic efforts to publish.
- He appeared very ill, but kept making spasmodic futile efforts to creep on to the protection of the table.
- The river may make an occasional spasmodic effort at a flood, but the time is approaching when it will cease to rise altogether.
- Throughout the late nineteenth century spasmodic efforts were made in individual districts to enforce some of these regulations.
- But now, with a spasmodic effort, she squirmed free and groped for the pebble.
- She made a spasmodic effort to go into the usual clinch, but the chains hindered her.
- With a spasmodic effort, Quamodian broke away from the hypnotic glare of that snake-wreathed star.
- And they sat, silent, jerked back and forth by the spasmodic efforts of the taxi.
- But a moment later the girl broke free, with a spasmodic effort.
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