Sentence for attempt | Use attempt in a sentence

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• I shall attempt both ends. (18)
• We cannot attempt to defend Dr. (4)
• She made a sad attempt at smiling. (10)
• In the end his attempt was a failure. (9)
• Was the next attempt to reap greater success? (19)
• Alice and Sampson also made an attempt to escape. (21)
• It was useless to attempt the posture of a reply. (10)
• Miss Gage had honestly made no attempt to follow me. (9)
• Suppose, for illustration, that I attempt to escape. (1)
• Overcome by strangeness, Noel made no attempt to talk. (8)
• Any attempt to speculate pitched me back into darkness. (10)
• The Countess was past the effort to attempt to stop him. (10)
• The unpractised Italian coachman declined to attempt it. (10)
• For why, if they were overpowering, attempt to resist them? (10)
• The crucial test of her love for Robert forbade the attempt. (10)
• The crucial test of her love for Robert forbade the attempt. (22)
• His will was already beginning to recover for a fresh attempt. (8)
• To this Elinor had no answer to make, and did not attempt any. (4)
• He made an attempt to read, failed, and fell again to thinking. (8)
• He did not attempt to resist, for Richard took him quite by surprise. (9)
• How did these early composers attempt to give Unity to a composition? (3)
• The price is immense, and much beyond what I can ever attempt to pay. (4)
• During the night run, a desperate attempt was made to rob the money wagon. (21)
• And he dared not go in, realising the futility of any attempt at consolation. (8)
• I am not so presumptuous as to attempt to enter the inner chamber of your spirit. (8)
• She tried to withdraw it, failed, gave up the attempt, and looked at him wistfully. (8)
• In vain did Elizabeth attempt to make her reasonable, and Jane to make her resigned. (4)
• Mr. Gardiner did not attempt to conceal these particulars from the Longbourn family. (4)
• One of these was a very earnest attempt to get that vague thing called an education. (13)
• One had enough of life left in him to make a pitiful attempt to drag himself to cover. (1)
• He would not attempt to meet Arnold, except under the pretense of an exchange of flags. (18)
• I almost abolished my editorial page, making of it an attempt to amuse, not to instruct. (16)
• It was perhaps his first attempt at irony, and he could not help thinking how good it was. (8)
• After such speaking Ammiani was not capable of the attempt to preach peace and safety to her. (10)
• Yet your soul froze all the more as the attempt was made to reach it through material things. (12)
• To what circumstance are we indebted for the attempt to make an instrument of the Clavier type? (3)
• He then made a slight attempt to attract her attention by beckoning with his finger; all in vain. (6)
• It had not been forgotten before, but it had been soon acknowledged vain to attempt to fix a day. (4)
• And with a haughty wave of his hand, prevented all further attempt on my part to seek explanation. (6)
• Pole turned his chair to the table, and made an attempt to inspect one of the papers deliberately. (10)
• The landlady implored her to speak him fair, and reflect on the desperate things he might attempt. (10)
• The question was so startling, from his own daughter, that Pierson took refuge in an attempt at wit. (8)
• Her husband, I hear from M. de Croisnel, dreads our climate and coffee too much to attempt the voyage. (10)
• He is convinced that her attempt to run away proceeded from no, justifiable cause, and had no provocation. (4)
• Of all the Frenchmen, he was the one best fitted to attempt the bold, virile style required by the libretto. (3)
• In drawing number 6 is a very simple half-timber house which shows practically no attempt at all to decorate. (17)
• The failure of her attempt to put a nicer idea into their heads disconcerted Frances Freeland for a moment only. (8)
• A heroine in a hack post-chaise is such a blow upon sentiment, as no attempt at grandeur or pathos can withstand. (4)
• He had looked forward to them, because his gifts had meant a semblance of gratitude, a certain attempt at warmth. (8)
• A second attempt to have Andre meet with him by means of the overland route was not considered favorably by Andre. (18)
• But Mavering rested satisfied with his achievement in that instance, and did not attempt anything else of the kind. (9)
• In another moment he was upon his feet, rifle in hand, striding rapidly forward with little attempt at concealment. (1)
• The attempt at a formation of the word produced a cavernous yawn a volume of the distressful deep to the beholder. (10)
• In this he was disappointed; he had never in his life felt less sleepy, and in a few minutes he gave up the attempt. (1)
• Once beyond the camp lines we did not attempt to enter again, but waved our adieus from the canoes as we floated off. (20)
• They were without a long-boat, and each attempt to {148} launch canoes in the boiling surf was attended with failure. (19)
• Adrian curbed his desire to ask Sir Austin whether an attempt to counteract the just working of the law was doing right. (10)
• In this mad attempt I ran upon a more vigilant sentinel, posted in the heart of a thicket, who fired at me without challenge. (7)
• Her third attempt at a letter pleased her scarcely better than the rest, but she sent it, though it seemed so blunt and awkward. (9)
• She did not attempt them a second time; nor, when Sir Purcell requested her to sing in the course of the evening, did she comply. (10)
• An attempt at a caress would have awakened her view of the whitherward: but she was treated as a sovereign lady rationally advised. (10)
• It is not easy when you are unacquainted with the language, to retort upon Latin, even when the attempt to do so is made in English. (10)
• A current of two cells was then passed through the simian and was promptly resented by a fierce attempt to break his bonds and escape. (21)
• Old showmen remember the attempt to take performing liberties with one of the spike-nosed monsters in a small town in Illinois in 1872. (21)
• And in the first place he made no attempt to disdain it because it was nothing but artful and heavy-handed, after the mediaeval pattern. (10)
• Roberval reluctantly obeyed, and thus this first attempt to establish a French colony on the banks of the St. Lawrence ended in failure. (19)
• We next see the attempt to combine metrical with unmetrical forms in the Organum Purum, and the final result in the strict form of Organum. (3)
• And who is there, whatever might be their former conduct, that she would think capable of such an attempt, till it were proved against them? (4)
• After that night, they gave up all attempt to hide their union, going to whatever they wished, whether they were likely to meet people or not. (8)
• To John, less in the know, it merely brought a knitting of the brow and a vague attempt to recollect the numbers of the Worcestershire constabulary. (8)

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