brief attempt
Example Sentences
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A brief attempt at a career in the legal profession was cut short after he failed his first year at law school.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
There was a brief attempt by Alston supporters to keep the chair, but it became moot.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 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
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
