"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape.
- Change was a mass movement; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual.
- Looked at that way, it didn't seem such a puny effort after all.
- But it was a puny effort, and he blocked it with his shoulder.
- He was ready to give the last few bullets of his automatic, in a puny effort to ward off death.
- But I realized it was a puny effort made against an avalanche in the market.
- His strong hand held back her puny efforts against him like she might throw off a fly.
- It was just a mind-game, a puny effort to freak him out.
- The strong wood withstood his puny efforts, so he flung the bow away.
- General Ironbeak was amused at the puny efforts of the creatures below.
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