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Example sentences for: attempt

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Will resents Marcus and finds him weird, but when he drops him off at home, they find the mother passed out in a failed suicide attempt, and Will's sympathy is engaged.
A NYT Week in Review piece documents the supermarket tabloids' attempt to woo the AARP crowd.
In an attempt to counter a threat from the Saracen Muslims, a new potent religious force from the East, the Byzantine army forcefully enlisted the men of the islands.
This lack of information, combined with the general advice to remain where they were, may have caused civilians above the impact not to attempt to descend, although stairwell A may have been passable.
In any event, it is hard to discern, from the arch style affected in an attempt to make dull facts interesting, just what is the origin of sow one's wild oats . In many entries, Claiborne labors the obvious, offering little or nothing we do not already know, could easily imagine, or for which the author offers no explanation.