brief attempt
Example Sentences
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It was the last time, despite Campbell's brief attempt, that Celtic and Rangers stars played in the same team.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2023
There was a brief attempt by Alston supporters to keep the chair, but it became moot.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
Dad built a few more during a brief attempt at retirement and now we have eight of these bulky boxes nestled in the boughs of oak trees around our Kent farm.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
At the end of her biography, O’Toole makes a brief attempt to rescue Wilson from what the great British historian E. P. Thompson once called the “enormous condescension of posterity.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018
The Hessians made a brief attempt at resistance; first, by a wild and useless fire from windows, and then by an attempt to form in the main street of the village.
From Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers by James Parton
