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    1. Splashing cold water on my face in an attempt to perk myself up, I prepare to meet the day


    2. If this is not available then attempt


    3. " Herndon wanted to bellow but he could see she was trying to contain herself and tried to make an attempt also


    4. We are not in this world to passively drift with the tides of ever changing events, to aggressively fulfill useless desires in a vain attempt to express limited personal powers


    5. An attempt to arrive at that which lies back of the form considered, or to reach the idea that is responsible for the form


    6. "Did you consider that he might attempt to steal it as it goes by?"


    7. He probably has the second biggest claim to being the rightful owner, but I don't think he will attempt to steal it, but he is one reason I wanted to keep this quiet


    8. Still he smiled, ignoring her attempt to fend him off


    9. It was a desperate attempt to deflect the direction of the conversation


    10. Uncle Bob married about the same time as Mum and Dad, but after a half-hearted attempt at farming here in England, he gave up and they emigrated to Australia

    11. in an attempt to burn out cancer cells, you cannot force cancer to leave


    12. ‘Ego?’ I replied with an attempt at flirtation


    13. ’ Stephen said, making an attempt to be normal


    14. My still damp jeans and shorts lay at the foot of the bed and I put them in the bucket in a vain attempt to confine their ill-humours


    15. Every time it came round to my turn to shake and roll, with every attempt that I made to scale the ladders of hope by constructing impossible plans for my salvation, with every throw of the dice, I just slipped down another snake


    16. On another attempt to develop my social life, about a month ago I answered to a classified ad for correspondence and friendship, placed by the 25-year-old Denia Chrysanthou


    17. Maybe we should make the best deal we can, concede that they will hold the ground, attempt to retain only those souls we can bring into heaven


    18. I appreciated his attempt to cheer me up at this hard time -but it was in vain: I was still feeling miserable, as if all the whole world were falling apart before me


    19. A attempt to change the subject to our son, "He came with me you know, it's the reason why we are here


    20. If it's a secret, then why don't you just speak to my mind?" Antonia again ignores his attempt and turns around, heading back to her station

    21. "Only after we attempt to divert that asteroid


    22. He would need Ava for introductions at least, unless he was going to attempt to burglarize the home


    23. A further note stated that his medical advisors were contemplating radical and somewhat risky surgery in an attempt to enable him to live a relatively normal life


    24. attempt to decapitate it


    25. Fortunately, Kara strenuously resisted this attempt to get rid of her as, when the small vehicle materialised, there was a letter addressed to Kara sitting in it


    26. Alfred had no choice but to give up this attempt with the shuttlecraft and sent it back to low orbit


    27. Now the third darkness since the attempt is confronting him


    28. Alan's attempt to jump on it was pinned to the ground by the creature's foot as it sprang into the panic


    29. coughing, when I attempt a foray into the wilds of Bideford,


    30. ‘You had a pleasant ride, Lintze?’ Wiesse asked as we begin our meal, his attempt at pretending an interest nearly oversetting me it is so forced

    31. Make no attempt to go farther as this is the stage in the proceedings when students try to achieve too much in a hurry with sometimes unpleasant results


    32. While I told you in stage 4 not to attempt anything beyond getting your toes to leave the ground for a brief instant, in this stage I would like you to increase the effort which you put into the whole movement until very gradually your body becomes less likely to drop back immediately


    33. If you suffer from high blood pressure, palpitations, chronic constipation, chronic nasal catarrh, or weak eyes, please do not attempt the Headstand


    34. To the adventurous among you who attempt it I would say please go carefully and do not strain any of your muscles


    35. ’ He replied, screwing his neck round in an attempt to see his arm


    36. I include it here for the sake of interest and in case there may be some readers adventurous enough to attempt it


    37. Suddenly struck by a thought, I go through my clothes, trying to find something to wear … there’s a skirt and top I haven’t worn yet … I hold them up against myself, rising on to my toes in an attempt to see what they look like in the small mirror on the wall … at least they are clean


    38. In case that didn't work, my father stacked chairs in front of the door to prevent a possible escape attempt


    39. Over the next three or four days a succession of busy city types, who had invested in this run down part of the city in an attempt to make a killing on property prices in a rising market, brought around baskets full of striped shirts, frilly blouses and flimsy briefs to be ironed


    40. My father ended up beside me to physically restrain me when I started to attempt to jump out of the car into the highway for real

    41. With the popularity of Christianity it became customary to build new churches over alternative temples of worship in an attempt to obliterate earlier influences


    42. “Duncan,” she dropped to her knees by his side, “you damn fool, you know better than to try to face one of these monsters?” Fear for him, and anger at his attempt showed in Rayne’s voice, “this is my work, Duncan


    43. attempt to keep up some semblance of dignity in the most trying of


    44. For example, an incident of childhood sexual abuse may have created a strong fear response that flares up whenever you attempt to form an intimate relationship as an adult


    45. traditional therapy cannot and does not attempt to


    46. in an attempt to discover more about the nature of


    47. ‘You just want me to carry the can for any wrong decisions!’ But it is a half-hearted attempt at lightness … Simon’s as struck as I am by the awesomeness of the whole enterprise


    48. who had invested in this run down part of the city in an attempt to


    49. So much for that attempt at altruism


    50. This, however, is not an attempt at scientific proof of the afterlife













































    1. Though this lake is a grander work than mankind of Sol ever attempted until the terraforming of Mars and Centorin


    2. But Tdeshi had attempted to drive herself two months without sleep and too deep into the drug that erased her


    3. “When they ran out of corpses to catapult over the walls, records say that an old bearded man took two axes to the wall and attempted to scale it in the dead of night


    4. The policeman who’d been here when she arrived had implied that it was more attempted murder than a mugging … seemed to think that she’d been deliberately left on the railway line


    5. She attempted to push away; again she stopped and looked up at him


    6. "They did their work during eclipse and they have not attempted to communicate with us


    7. "I suspect that is the same object and that our visitor attempted some kind of contact by landing someone or something on our world


    8. It was his current suspicion that they may have attempted contact, may have even made contact and they were keeping it secret even from him


    9. He attempted to flame the Queen and Kate before they could get away, and was answered with the Staff of Light


    10. He began to understand the monumental task that was being attempted by these people, and he understood the part he was to play in it

    11. Sonia attempted to follow this man, but lost him


    12. It attempted to attack these two when they entered our room


    13. In this case the stakes are big, bigger than anything he has attempted before


    14. Twenty minutes later they spotted the city above them and began to climb; once at the top they attempted to swing themselves over to the landing to begin the slaughter


    15. To have any chance of success he must be in a sensory deprivation tank for at least eight hours before the substrate translation is attempted


    16. “This is hard work,” moaned Tom, as he attempted to persuade


    17. Men and dogs attempted to direct the unruly herds, with much


    18. behaviour, and to recognise the signs of attempted smuggling


    19. attempted to instil the rudiments of the Lyndesfarne alphabet, and the


    20. Not that your record shows any evidence that you ever even attempted to sterilize it

    21. other two, attempted to swerve around the carnage


    22. No-one’s attempted it in years, not even the


    23. guessed – correctly, as it turned out – what was being attempted


    24. He reflected upon his own request and attempted another go, but from a different tack


    25. " He attempted to defend himself


    26. Snapping his hand to his mouth Jim attempted to control his laughter too, but Shelly never even tried


    27. Crawling to a dry spot, she stood up and attempted to smooth her already tight jeans


    28. They had no idea how glad she was to see them, but she attempted to control her enthusiasm


    29. " she attempted to correct his misconception, while pouring a cup of coffee


    30. "We're not going our separate ways!" she attempted to clarify the situation "He just won't come down

    31. " Jim sat back down but he attempted to release her hand


    32. The second batter attempted to move the runner over to second by bunting


    33. Bryant attempted to bunt but was called out after bunting the ball foul three times


    34. The term scrounge also implied someone who attempted to eat from waste also


    35. one stage), and he treated our attempted French with the


    36. Nor should you have attempted my destruction


    37. and I embraced and attempted a vague approximation of


    38. Other scientists have attempted to do similar things with other drugs like LSD for example and usually with bad results


    39. We could say it was reported to us that one of our clients attempted to do bodily harm to a thief or something like that


    40. Alec puffed out his chest, and attempted to speak in an authoritative voice

    41. They must have attempted to re-capture him on the Lhar and he had escaped somehow


    42. Whenever the law has attempted to regulate the wages of workmen, it has always


    43. attempted to raise the wages of curates, and, for the dignity of the church, to oblige the rectors


    44. Still fuming over Alec's display, Brice attempted to rejoin his lecture from where he left off


    45. Nathaniel sat at the table in his room and attempted to roll a cigarette with his new homemade ingredients


    46. He didn’t know if what he attempted was even possible – but it was definitely forbidden


    47. She attempted a regular public small town school


    48. Class Representative had his hands up, and valiantly attempted to


    49. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free


    50. ” She attempted to grab the book back, but I held it out of her reach














































    1. It wasn't just the money and it wasn't the foolishness of attempting to return to Sol


    2. With the popularity of Yoga spreading throughout the world, there is also the innate danger of people attempting to teach Yoga without actually being fully trained to use it as a therapeutic tool


    3. "How about it Sammy? If you have nothing to hide why would you want to cause a lot of trouble by throwing me out of here? Or even more foolish, attempting to assault me?"


    4. Ava immediately said her goodbyes and went back to her lab, probably worrying about the asteroid and attempting to refine the predictions


    5. Later, at Janus, we all had a pleasant surprise: Alexander finally agreed to our attempting a technique for astral projection in class, which consists of the following steps:


    6. He thought seriously of attempting that hack, and was just moving to his lab to think of a way to carry it out when his good friend Jaseem Attuk rang in


    7. Someone has been attempting to contact the female side


    8. He shouldn't have said anything to Enrico, but then Enrico had admitted more to him hadn't he? Homosexuality was at least as important a crime as attempting to contact a wife


    9. The warning not to jerk any movements is reiterated here as you should not try to swing your arms over violently as you may well injure a rigid muscle which would discourage you from ever attempting this valuable exercise again


    10. Simply for the very good reason that it is difficult for the beginner to master and I wanted you to limber up with some easier exercises before attempting to balance on your head

    11. What he didn't understand is why they weren't attempting contact


    12. shopping centre, where they spent an hour attempting to blend in


    13. Remember that you are simply attempting to find the


    14. “As First to Queen Naria, I hereby read the charges: For those countless boys that you corrupted; for the many innocents that you stole from, raped, and murdered; for following a man you knew to be mad and doing his bidding; for attempting to kill Lord Tarak; for plotting to murder the Queen and aiding Lord Boras in taking the throne, you are hereby sentenced to death


    15. Only Andy was affected by Chas’s death and not attempting to hide it in any way; his face was paler than usual, his eyes flicked from face to face as he tried to emulate his fellows in their insouciance


    16. He knew there was no point in attempting to locate Tarm – he had


    17. memory, he thought, attempting to chuckle at himself for the weak


    18. From what she’s let drop, it seems her ex-husband deceived her, lied to her and, having driven her to attempting suicide, lied to her psychiatrist as well, trying to convince both of them that she was crazy


    19. But the only paint was put on by artists, or people attempting to be artists


    20. “You’re doing this on purpose,” he said after attempting, “You must be concentrating on dtair-infested rinko or something

    21. He again repeated their location, and then walked around to where she’d taken a seat in the snow, attempting to calm herself enough to ease the difficulty she was having with breathing


    22. The ground continued moving below her, while occasionally she would lift her head, attempting to peek into the darkness behind them


    23. She was attempting to use the suntower system to upload the knowledge stored in our crystal


    24. Despite suffering what was an obvious mortal wound, he used what little power he had left to cover his steaming pile of guts in a shield of Oneness, while simultaneously attempting to shove the twisted pile of entrails back inside with his hands


    25. The giant understood this as well, and was completely ignoring Brontes, desperately attempting to pull the burning staff out


    26. walking and attempting to cross the road on his very


    27. attempting to identify a station where busses


    28. And every time a bright-eyed woman of High Rock heritage would grace the city, Sorex had a way of locating her among the crowd forthwith and convincing her – or at least vigorously attempting to – that his family’s inn was an oasis


    29. When his mammalian meal was sadly limited or difficult to capture some days, he would have to diversify his diet, attempting to track down birds, snakes, lizards, and especially in the fall and winter months even complement his normal intake with a few fruit and vegetables


    30. When her vegetarian meal was sadly restricted some days due to dangerous conditions in her environment, she would have to limit her diet, attempting to locate whatever she could without overly exposing herself to the risks around her

    31. "Demilan, don’t take this the wrong way, but I need to know what's he talking ab—" her words were cut short, thanks to Odis's friend, who used the short window of time, whern Maileena turned her back on him, and lunged at her from the couch, attempting to grab her revolver


    32. Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of the present or that of the two preceding centuries, of several of which we have pretty exact accounts, will find, I believe, that a dearth never has arisen from any combination among the inland dealers in corn, nor from any other cause but a real scarcity, occasioned sometimes, perhaps, and in some particular places, by the waste of war, but in by far the greatest number of cases by the fault of the seasons; and that a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconveniencies of a dearth


    33. She was very busy now attempting to swallow his output


    34. It wasn’t the right time to be attempting that sort of thing


    35. She went without male sex for several years, attempting the occasional self-masturbation for relief, but finally she could stand it no longer


    36. The unavoidable ignorance of administration, besides, concerning the relative importance of the different members of those different assemblies, the offences which must frequently be given, the blunders which must constantly be committed, in attempting to manage them in this manner, seems to render such a system of management altogether impracticable with regard to them


    37. Martin suddenly was aware of the whole scheme Sloan was attempting as he looked at the screening visual which stopped at the entrance way to Georgetown


    38. Parliament, in attempting to exercise its supposed right, whether well or ill grounded, of taxing the colonies, has never hitherto demanded of them anything which even approached to a just proportion to what was paid by their fellow subjects at home


    39. The President added that Security had picked up increased chatter and knowledge about “outsiders”, as he put it, attempting to obtain data about the Aquifer’s capabilities, which, he added, “were State secrets”


    40. He also remembered the Administration was attempting to revitalize a dormant wind farm sector up in the higher ridges

    41. One of my teachers, who was attempting to teach me


    42. When my government understands what you are attempting to do, it will bring their full wrath on you personally and who you represent,” Martin said, getting more strength as he talked


    43. I stopped and looked up at him, attempting to convey my love


    44. Debbie was attempting to hold a torch beam on the offending device while the doctor stretched his neck to get a better view


    45. Perhaps it knew there was nothing he could do to save the Doc, or that by attempting to do so would use up vital resources that he himself needed, and by remaining asleep he was indeed conserving those resources


    46. “Mother,” I placed my hand over hers and gave it a small squeeze, attempting to make her fears vanish


    47. Now Torbin, who’d been entrusted with the various access codes, was attempting to generate another wormhole


    48. They were attempting about this time to raise it still further, to twelve and a-half per cent


    49. I pushed, attempting to rid my body of this horror


    50. I gawked in all directions, attempting to view the tops of city palaces and public buildings inside the strong walls














































    1. Any attempts to infiltrate the group have ended in tragedy: a dead reporter, blood drained and clean-shaven


    2. moment the clamour of insistent insanity that underpins all of our attempts to


    3. After each halt the truck then began its ponderous attempts at acceleration, jerking through the gears, sliding me slowly towards the rear of the box where my head would hit hard metal


    4. I thought back over my own attempts to plead my special case


    5. attempts to defend this negative pattern out of a desire to


    6. It took her several hours and multiple attempts to write her letter


    7. Meanwhile, despite all attempts to stay in the shadows and


    8. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket


    9. Even more nervously, I do what he suggests, and, to my utter surprise, find that Sefir appears to understand my hamfisted attempts at manipulating the reins


    10. The children barricaded themselves in their bedroom, but their parents made no attempts to break in

    11. A piece of advice my previous failed attempts were due to my trying to go from a feeling of fear to that of security in an instant


    12. Her attempts to explain this bizarre


    13. It seemed that the boys were always getting into trouble for something or other; one particular story of their raid on a house of ‘red ladies’, attempts to get souvenirs, being thoroughly thrashed by the said 'ladies' was extremely funny


    14. areas of your life, and especially in your attempts to


    15. She let him think she hadn’t seen what was happening, and fought off his attempts to find out the details of where she had been and what she had seen


    16. typical dragon panics at this point, and attempts to take off


    17. Last year’s failed attempts at container gardening still bear the skeletal proof that Billy does not posses green fingers


    18. They made months of attempts to get in but in vain


    19. Mandy was then consigned to working in their restaurant as her parent's revenge for her blatant and insensitive ingratitude toward their sincere attempts to secure an advantageous alliance with the prestigious family


    20. Her left arm and hand are bruised and stained dull purple from the repeated attempts to cannulate

    21. What time does she call this? He makes two attempts to stand and as he does the blood rushes into the void behind his eyes


    22. “It seems that attempts to cross like this almost never happen


    23. It takes two attempts to reverse the car out of the hedge


    24. several aborted attempts, he eventually achieved a small


    25. They kept at it for the space of perhaps three quarters of an hour in alternating failed and successful attempts


    26. a dozen failed attempts


    27. sort out the mess, but after several failed attempts, running was the only surefire


    28. Playing with toys couldn't console her forever, eventually she would always come back to the signals and her attempts to penetrate native communications


    29. When a projector attempts to establish a new manufacture, he must at first entice his workmen


    30. religious houses, after some other ineffectual attempts for their relief, it was enacted, by the

    31. The smallest child, whose name was simply Bell, floated forward and replied, "His attempts to summon the assassin Rafe remain unheeded


    32. There weren't any attempts yet


    33. and she pointedly rejected her master's frequent attempts


    34. Despite all of X’ander’s attempts to avoid a trap, the undead had finally caught him


    35. attempts to get out of the al iance with


    36. In her arms, a white poodle, groomed to perfection, seems to recognize the thin man, wags its tail and attempts to leap from the woman’s arms towards him


    37. people had succeeded in their preserved attempts of beating the


    38. After many failed attempts to learn Asmodeus's true name, my parents summoned the archangel, Haniel


    39. His attempts were fruitless


    40. feeble attempts of friendship in the form of

    41. Self-interested, veiled attempts @ promoting your biz will fall flat


    42. And once more, the latter shook off the spell, this time appearing vaguely irritated by the vain attempts


    43. She had spoken nothing more to anyone after her desperate attempts to convince the Imperial officers of her innocence had repeatedly failed


    44. To dream that you are attending or going to a dance indicates a celebration and your attempts to achieve happiness


    45. In her boredom amid attempts to sleep, she had taken to dusting off and polishing the bowl as best as she could and the antique rims shone brilliantly once again


    46. Demilan drew his knife from its leather holster and stabbed the man three times in the chest, making sure he wouldn’t be making any further attempts at him or at Maileena


    47. It took a few attempts and lots of giggling before Helez was finally dressed in the most daring outfit Crissy had ever seen


    48. After a few attempts, Helez got the hang of it and soon she was able, gradually and very seductively, to expose more and more flesh until she was totally naked


    49. After all the anxiety, however, which they have excited about this, after all the vain attempts of almost all trading nations to turn that balance in their own favour, and against their neighbours, it does not appear that any one nation in Europe has been, in any respect, impoverished by this cause


    50. He was not much pleased with the innkeeper’s incessant attempts to be kindly and engage him in conversation














































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    Synonyms for "attempt"

    attack attempt effort endeavor endeavour try set about undertake assay essay seek push struggle onslaught exertion bid striving undertaking aspire make an effort strive venture assail combat assault

    "attempt" definitions

    earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something


    the act of attacking


    make an effort or attempt


    enter upon an activity or enterprise