Example sentences for: unsuccessfully

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

  • The neighborhood is named for the main beach in town, Los Muertos (the Dead) — however, the city fathers prefer a kinder, gentler nomenclature, and have unsuccessfully tried to rename it “Zona Romántica,” and the beach, “Playa del Sol” (just so you’ll know when you see the many street signs).

  • The mainstream Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) recently formed a coalition with extreme separatist parties, prompting Aznar to compare the party's attitude with that of the British and French prime ministers in 1938, who tried, unsuccessfully, to stop Hitler with [territorial] concessions to avoid World War II."

  • In Robin Cook's semi-autobiographical book, The Year of the Intern (1973), the protagonist takes aim with an epinephrine-filled syringe at the still heart of a patient who moments before he had unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate.

  • And, very importantly, is an unsuccessfully challenged animal partially immunized against further challenges, or, alternatively, do unsuccessful challenges facilitate future infection by “seeding” animals with defective proviruses that may recombine with complementing viruses upon subsequent exposures [44]?

  • At 8:51, the flight deviated from its assigned altitude, and a minute later New York air traffic controllers began repeatedly and unsuccessfully trying to contact it.


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