Example sentences for: unsuccessfully

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

  • For instance, it sought unsuccessfully to require that CIA security checks be completed before naturalization applications were approved.

  • The play focuses on the inner conflict of a young scientist, an African American woman who tries unsuccessfully to straddle the opposing world views of her profession and her family.

  • Six years later he besieged Vienna for 24 days (unsuccessfully) before going on to take most of Hungary.

  • Hypothesis 3 says that when I buy a $100 gun, I protect myself from, say, $150 worth of property loss, while inflicting, say, $75 worth of property loss on my neighbors--because half the criminals who try unsuccessfully to rob me go on to rob someone else instead.

  • 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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