Sentence examples for My second effort from inspiring English sources

In fact, my second effort has shed some light on how Google decides someone is famous, but I'll write that up separately, since this post is already long enough.

There's no need to use an extra pan to prepare the roux, which is a godsend when you're cooking a Sunday roast, and it's much easier to stir liquid into a roux than the other way around – to my shame, I spot a couple of lumps in my second effort.

My first effort backfired a bit.

"My first effort was vile," she recalled.

My first effort involved my taking a guitar-case worth of tools to Nassau Hall.

"My first effort was in the fifth grade: a one-act play based on 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' which had just been serialized in The Detroit Times.

My first effort was a classic raspberry, which turned out to be so surprisingly delicious that I felt as if I'd broken some secret code.

But it was my first effort, and I've made 17 full-length films since, as well as having written and directed a dozen or so stage plays, including Abigail's Party.

The results are amazingly good for such an easy recipe: rich and creamy, with a lovely flavour – but it still lacks the elusive caramel tang of my first effort.

My first effort, made early one morning inside the eighty-sixth-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building — under the tutelage of the third man on the crew there, Ron Zeibig, an affable hulk with stringy blond shoulder-length hair and a black belt in jujitsu, nicknamed Thor by his last partner — was not a success.

Writing this stuff is terrific fun but requires patience, as I discovered even while hacking out my first effort, in 1976, when a two- or three-hour stretch of groaning and scribbling and scratching out a little section on Christmas carols suddenly induced: Come, Willie Morris; come, Maury Wills: Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills.