"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was painful to watch their pitiful efforts.
- It was a pitiful effort because from that position, he couldn't seem to rise without the use of his arms which were off now to the elbows.
- Nobody but the Guardian readers care about their pitiful efforts.
- His fists doubled in a pitiful effort at bravado but he was game.
- Falloway made a pitiful effort to thrust forward his narrow chest.
- He began to struggle up onto his elbows with a pitiful effort at obedience that nearly broke my heart.
- A torrent of mechanical noise drowned out her lungs' pitiful effort.
- G-8 watched with sinking heart the pitiful efforts of the bomber pilots to escape their fate.
- Just think, if he'd been able to tackle he may not have put in such an inpet, pitiful effort for the Lions that cost a try.
- He tried to make his voice lighter, a pitiful effort.
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