"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He made fruitless efforts to go on; it was impossible.
- That too was a fruitless effort; it had no intention of compliance.
- He said that effort, fruitless so far, was expected to end this week.
- After three hours, fruitless effort, we were driven from the river by their incessant attack.
- There are fruitless efforts to seek help, from city hall to the provincial administration and all the way to the capital.
- As my father often said during his fruitless efforts to turn me into a baseball player, "You've got to keep your eye on the ball."
- But that end was never achieved, and in the fruitless effort more than 900 Israeli soldiers were killed.
- After a fruitless effort to organize the group, the aide gave up.
- After his death many fruitless efforts were undertaken to try to locate it.
- They made several determined but fruitless efforts to recapture the piece.
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