"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Shadow knew that he was on the right trail; but it was one that would take time and might prove hopeless.
- And other lyrics that he has been carrying with him for years often prove hopeless.
- And when he proved hopeless, that made him meaner.
- She was trying to resist being bullied, but against this man the struggle had already proved hopeless.
- By the end of the block, the hunt proved hopeless.
- Democracy, he writes, "is supposedly the long-term solution to our present difficulties", yet it is proving hopeless at thinking long term.
- Adams must have had a terrible sense of direction, after so many years of searching his quest proved hopeless.
- That proved hopeless, for North had to lose two club tricks and a trick in each red suit.
- He started that way, with his men, on a chase that was bound to prove hopeless.
- My efforts to return to D.C. for the weekend proved hopeless.
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