Sentence examples for a half-hearted try from inspiring English sources

She did give it a half-hearted try.

However, Real made light of the disadvantage when Bale fired in a brilliant free-kick which Eray made a half-hearted effort to try to save.

In most cases, the incumbent tries the usual tactics, perhaps making a half-hearted effort to change strategies to be more like the newbie, or calling on politicians to help save them.

"I'd rather go to the Games and come out thinking I tried to win, not that I went out and crossed the line third with a half-hearted attempt, and regretting that.

She made a half-hearted attempt to pull him away.

But this was, by Arum's standards, a half-hearted attempt.

It feels like a half-hearted attempt to me.

To be honest, it looks like a half-hearted effort and is hard on the eyes.

"Even though trying to bridge out a new title on the [Super Famicom] was a little backwards at the time, we didn't want to make a half-hearted attempt at it," Inafune explained.

"Listen," he said as he made a half-hearted attempt to suppress a giggle.

By now, to those like me who have followed Mr. Malkmus's music over the last 10 years, it's a nostalgic expression, a little ironic reference to a time when little ironic references were de rigueur and the half-hearted try was the badge of the so-called slacker generation.