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Example sentences for: attempts

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This was the case in our attempts to model the HOG network.
Several philosophies of defining prevail—not too abstruse to go into in VERBATIM, but a not entirely appropriate aside here—and the style cleaved to by Gove attempts an approach that is progressively restrictive or expansive, depending on the nature of the word defined.
Episodes reviewed so far are dismissed as failed attempts at Hollywood and Washington satire.
The fantasy comes within an inch of seeming pathetic, but Beatty (who co-wrote the script with Jeremy Pikser) is savvy enough to give Bulworth a coked-up campaign manager (the brilliant Oliver Platt) whose jittery attempts at black slang throw the senator's more soulful conversion into relief.
James Bond, on the other hand, is always poking about in some villain's undersea lair, and his attempts at repartee are just parody bait.