"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He made a vain effort to close the door, then laughed.
- Some members of the Commune made a vain last effort to stop the crime, but it had gone too far.
- He tells of his own vain efforts to trace them.
- The old man turned just in time to see him coming, and made a vain effort to jerk the lever.
- He looked about him in a vain effort at orientation.
- His lips fell apart in the vain effort to answer.
- She pushed against his shoulders in a vain effort to hold him off.
- I had visited her often in the London hospital where vain efforts were made to stop the spread of cancer.
- She made one more vain effort and then burst into tears.
- I took a deep breath in a vain effort to clear my head, then stood up.
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