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attempted
adjective as in undertaken
Weak matches
adjective as in ventured
Strong matches
- adventured
- chanced
- dared
- experimented
- gambled
- hazarded
- tested
- tried
Example Sentences
It was the year that Kim Kardashian attempted to break the Internet with hers.
The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.
After he allegedly unloaded on the cops, Brinsley attempted to make a getaway to a nearby subway.
As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.
That statistic is based on a survey that includes attempted forced kissing as sexual assault.
Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.
It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.
One little girl attempted to smell at the trees in a drawing and pretended to feed some pictorial dogs.
Joseph, with his liberal ideas, had attempted to free the people from clerical thraldom.
None the less it is the most nearly true of all the broad generalizations that can be attempted in regard to mankind.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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