"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Thousands of Soviet soldiers had paid with their lives for this abortive effort which had also cost us very dear.
- Again Angie had the impression that whoever was outside might have made an abortive effort to hold it open.
- She made abortive efforts to turn and flee from the spectacle, but her legs would not work.
- The result is that electronic coupons are finally making a major impact, after almost a decade of abortive efforts and false starts.
- We made an abortive effort to trigger the olfactory nerves with sound, but it just won't work.
- Individually, they made abortive efforts to protect the boys.
- The attack proved to be disorganized and an abortive effort.
- Following several abortive efforts to encourage artist to return to the studios, the media began to speculate on a loss of her voice in 2004.
- Thank goodness it does not seem to have been an abortive effort.
- Through the 1970s and 1980s, several abortive efforts were made to establish a Sandoz center at the college.
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