Words similar to effort

Example sentences for: effort

How can you use “effort” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

America repelled every effort to knock him off the pantheon.
We used females in an effort to remedy the paucity of FAS-related data collected on female rodents.
If you oppose an idea--say, censure of the president or the effort to establish "findings of fact"--just damn the idea as "unconstitutional" to silence the opposition.
My Columbia colleague Simon Schama's Dead Certainties , also now several years old, was a deliberate effort to play with the elusive boundary between fiction and history and to suggest how the two might be fruitfully joined.
In consequence, because the familiar live by the sweat of our brows means work hard for a living (no longer entailing the sort of physical effort that cause sweating), we are prepared to conclude that the Jan Morris clone means work hard for a living by authorship .