Sentence examples for Slight effort from inspiring English sources

As a boy, William Lonigan (always referred to as "Studs") makes a slight effort to rise above his squalid urban environment.

He continued: "But if in the future some slight effort could be made to determine the actual events of the story, it would be greatly appreciated by my wife and me".

But if in the future some slight effort could be made to determine the actual events of the story, it would be greatly appreciated by my wife and me.

In between, when it makes a slight effort to move your luggage in the direction you wish to go, albeit at a third the pace at which you could carry the donkey and the luggage yourself, you will fawn on it, pat the soft fringe coming down over its nose, and whisper sweet quadruped nothings in its ear.

The same qualities apply in poetry--the standard workshop poem is a narrative or associative slight effort, taking off from the quotidian, to rest in an uneasy or understated epiphany.

At that point the car will not do any thing, except make a slight effort to start.

PL-MSCs have been described more recently, and slight efforts have been focused on proving their abilities [ 13].

"We can do better," they claim, without making the slightest effort to explain how.

Fortuyn never made the slightest effort to hide the fact that he was gay.

My guess is that they will not make the slightest effort to discipline the mole". This was a tease.

We choose to suck up every last drop of oil rather than make even the slightest effort to conserve.