"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It has, after all, defied their very best efforts so far.
- She tried to flatten them out on the sand, but they defied her efforts.
- But the same warping made the door defy their efforts to raise it any higher.
- It cuts conversation to a few shouts and defies anyone's efforts to keep clean.
- The wall defied their best efforts to even scratch it with anything short of explosive devices.
- We started with the books, which had defied our past halfhearted efforts to weed them out.
- Often he brought back materials or devices that defied the scientists' best efforts to duplicate them.
- Boxing has long defied efforts to clean it up.
- McGwire has defied efforts of teams to find his weakness.
- But this was a wall that defied his efforts to tear it down because it could not be seen or felt.
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