Sentence examples for Once attempt from inspiring English sources

Plushenko said that during those three years, he did not once attempt a quadruple jump, the element that had made him his sport's dominant figure.

Plushenko said that for three years he did not once attempt a quadruple jump, the element that had made him the dominant figure in his sport.

The man is as close to a crook as anyone can be without doing jail time (although he did, allegedly, once attempt to get Mike Tyson out of the slammer).

(She tells Philip that she too once attempted to write a play. Hers was called "Ironica").

It is not turning base metals into gold, as Paracelsus and his kind once attempted.

A doctor once attempted to sand the color off her skin, to no avail.

This I once attempted to do in a geometry textbook I wrote in the 1970's.

Another friend once attempted to make hot chocolate in a kettle.

Charlie Brooker once attempted to do just that but alas only found tuna.

Jacob Gold '06 once attempted to explain to a cast of Cambodian comedians the opening joke from Annie Hall.

Gordon Brown revealed in his tribute to Kennedy that he once attempted to get him to defect to the Labour party.