Sentence examples for Once attempted from inspiring English sources

(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.

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.

Tales of upmarket brothels followed the poker saga; Venerable Jaseung's camp accused the whistle-blower, who had been expelled from the order after a feud, of once attempting to rape a nun and buying a car with temple funds.

In the end, Jill never once attempts to answer any of my simple questions, which is typical.

"The group was immediately evicted by security staff once it attempted to display an offensive banner," Keane said.