Examples of attempts in a Sentence

• Examples of attempt
  1. an abortive attempt
  2. I will attempt to make an alpha particle ("α-particle") with the large hadron collider.
  3. In New Jersey’s smallest municipalities, whose state aid has been slashed in an attempt to prod them into consolidating with neighboring communities, some residents called the budget cuts antirural.
  4. Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.
  5. Harry made a bungling attempt to catch the ball.
• Examples of attempts
  1. His electoral "campaign" to date has included attempts to trump up criminal charges against his opponents.
  2. In Martha Nussbaum's terms, Luke attempts to “unwrite” the culture-forming stories of paganism by offering a different narrative that construes the entirety of reality in light of the God of Israel's act in Jesus.
  3. This is a species of Poëtry, which every young adventurer almost attempts...
  4. Other notable Canadian censorship attempts are have had such strong Streisand Effects, they might as well have directed and starred in the romantic drama Prince Of Tides.
  5. Like the appeals to sympathy and generosity, the appeal to civic-mindedness attempts to capitalize on benevolent feelings.
  6. Attempts to fuse and defluorinate rock phosphate by feeding the finely ground material into the flame of a blast lamp were not successful.
  7. No more than a total of ten cannulation attempts (defined as a sustained contact between the sphincterotome and the papilla for at least five seconds) were allowed during this time frame.
• Examples of attempted
  1. He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
  2. The installers attempted to thread the fish tape through the conduit, but were unable to reach around the tight bend in the tube.
  3. One day he attempted to help out by leading a gentleman cow back to the ranch, a distance of about a mile.
  4. Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
  5. He's just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
  6. Uncooperative children must be adequately immobilized before otoscopy is attempted.
  7. As I attempted to hit a six with a half-full bottle of mineral water, a papad vendor approached us to laugh at our cricketing abilities.
  8. He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. ‎
  9. These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
  10. The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
• Examples of attempting
  1. It's also important to note that we are attempting to identify the dominant and superdominant personality types as they relate to an individual's vital role on a particular team.
  2. It is obviously desirable, before attempting to interpret the structures exhibited, under the microscope, to compare the fresh and uncalcined materials with those that have been more or less altered by heat.
  3. POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.
  4. My own use of this fundamental principle will be relatively modest: I am not attempting to argue for physicalism over dispositionalism or other alternatives, but only to show that if one is to be a color physicalist, one should tie colors to events.
  5. Attempting (and failing) to Expose Homosexuality In The Nazi Party and in the process, exposing Heterofascism in America.
  6. She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
  7. Ethologists concerned with the evolution of human behaviour have stopped short of attempting to explain the further reaches of the human mind; consciousness, self-reference, the construction of identity, and intersubjective relating.
  8. The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.
  9. The US Department of Justice has a handy guide for police to focus on when attempting to bust the next toe tapper or washroom wanker.
  10. Readers enter the storyworlds of novels and then follow the logic of the events that occur in them primarily by attempting to reconstruct the fictional minds of the characters in that storyworld. Otherwise, readers lose the plot.

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1. en attempt
2. en attempted
3. en adempts
4. en attests
5. fr atteints