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

After a brief attempt at resistance, the governor fled, and al-Shī‘ī entered the city, released ‘Obaidallah and presented him to the army as the long-promised Imām.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various