"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gardener's clumsy efforts to cheer her up met with no success.
- She was too young to have much skill at it, but that very youth made even her clumsy efforts effective.
- I suppose your tail is a clumsy effort in that direction.
- It had been lived in not long since, and only a clumsy effort made to conceal the fact.
- But clumsy efforts at reassurance continue, with claims that Government work is unaffected.
- Then, to her surprise and growing confidence, she discovered her clumsy efforts did work!
- More striking, though, was his relatively frank discussion of China's often clumsy efforts to deal with the problem.
- As such, I was afraid our clumsy theatrical efforts would be immediately transparent.
- Once I'm dead, she'll be back to having to make do with your clumsy occasional efforts at lovemaking.
- It was a clumsy effort, reminiscent of high school, and she recoiled before he could finish.
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