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"Attempt" in a Sentence (30 examples)
Our attempt has proved to be a failure.
Don't attempt two things at once.
Don't attempt two projects at a time.
The attempt ended in failure for want of support.
I cannot help feeling that the attempt has turned out to be a failure.
The attempt ended in failure.
This attempt resulted in failure.
This attempt has been less than a complete success.
The coup attempt was foiled at the last moment.
Today is the fatal day that they will attempt their escape.
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to attempt an escape from prison
I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.
A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn’t make it to the top.
Something attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
Yet since I see you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.
It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
one who attempts the virtue of a woman
Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
to attempt the enemy’s camp
without attempting his adversary’s life
Whoever takes a direct and immediate step towards the realisation of the offence as envisaged by them attempts to commit an offence.
We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn’t manage.
This poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.
It was worth the attempt.
No matter how many failed attempts we made, we maintained a positive attitude and tried again and again until we succeeded.
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea
No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm.
Whoever voluntarily abandons the further commission of the offence or prevents its completion incurs no penalty for attempt.
Her attempt was not successful, and resulted in her being hospitalized.
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