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

After a brief attempt at becoming a professional Australian rules football player in 1988, he went to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide and made his first-class debut in 1991.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2022

There was a brief attempt, in the 1960s during the second Vatican council, at reevaluation – and then slam!

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2018

Or, a brief attempt to demonstrate, that the Newtonian system is perfectly agreeable to the notions of the wisest ancients: and that mathematical principles are the only sure ones.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene