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Example sentences for: attempted

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For example, while FDNY dispatch advised Field Comm that 100 people were reported via 911 to be trapped on the 105th floor of the North Tower, and Field Comm then attempted to convey that report to chiefs at the outdoor command post, this information did not reach the North Tower lobby.
Earlier today, when Chatterbox first attempted to phone Felt (now an octogenarian living in California with his daughter Joan), he got an answering machine.
To understand these events, we attempted to reconstruct some of the context of the 1990s.
Some units whose members had become separated during the climb attempted to regroup so they could descend together.
Instead the British have attempted "to stay on the world stage by associating themselves with U.S. global supremacy.