"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It cost him an effort not to pull the trigger.
- She didn't quite kick me, but it cost her an effort not to.
- Each word cost him an effort, as if he had to bring it to the surface from a terrible depth.
- It cost an effort to force the picture and the emotion out of his mind.
- It cost him an effort before he could give her the attention that she had claimed.
- He swallowed; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother.
- He laughed, something that seemed to cost him an effort.
- Each step cost her an effort of will which seemed the last possible.
- The next thing cost him an effort to say, but he managed it anyway.
- It cost him an effort to hold back the tears.
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