"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Once again we hear about his halfhearted efforts to rebel against a destiny in politics.
- With some halfhearted effort, he regained control of himself and straightened in his seat.
- When the Sisters came to give him his lessons, he put in only a halfhearted effort.
- There had been a halfhearted effort to seal it up.
- When the next compy came up and bit his ankle, he made only a halfhearted effort to kick it away.
- This time, he could not be accused of performing with a halfhearted effort, which led officials to fine him last year.
- A long cancerous draw on the cigarette; a halfhearted effort to blow the smoke out the window.
- Other nations have made halfhearted efforts to help us.
- He made a halfhearted effort to pull away from her embrace.
- We started with the books, which had defied our past halfhearted efforts to weed them out.
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