"try" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

try sustantivo

verbo + try
Kolokacji: 5
score a try • make a try • give a try • take several tries • convert the try
adjetivo + try
Kolokacji: 14
good try • nice try • only try • final try • unsuccessful try • ...
(1) good, nice, far
Kolokacji: 3
(3) unsuccessful, futile
Kolokacji: 2
1. unsuccessful try = nieudana próba unsuccessful try
2. futile try = daremna próba futile try
  • He made a couple of futile tries, wadded up the paper, and gave up.
  • After a few futile tries, he succeeded in inserting the small key in the lock and getting the handcuffs off.
  • Finally, after one last futile try at freeing the inexplicably recalcitrant lever, he sagged back against the door, resigned to his fate.
  • He gathered the stack of book-films to himself in a formless lump and managed, after two futile tries, to re-establish the door to Eternity.
  • He had stepped away from the table very quietly while I was making my futile try at the cord and he held the hedger.
  • It would have been a relief if, after a certain number of futile tries, it had been programmed to say, "Buzz off, sister; you've had it."
  • Knowing You, Randy, you'd make one futile try, then another, then another.
  • After several futile tries, she was able to call out for Jagun.
  • Lem," he began, stepping toward the scientist slowly while making another futile try at dissuading Faal from his destiny.
preposición + try
Kolokacji: 7
of tries • in several tries • with several tries • worth a try • after several tries • ...

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