Sentence examples for am attempting from inspiring English sources
verb
To try.
- I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.
I am attempting to be a social scientist trying to explain voting behavior.
This year, for the first time, I am attempting to grow my own veg.
'Essentially, I am attempting the impossible over and over, trying to find a way to say the unsayable.
"What I am attempting now, is a zigzag course from middle to beginning, back to middle, forward to a kind of judgment," she explains alarmingly.
I am attempting to do just that – despite a warning from Ansel: "It's not something I would recommend for home cooks as it's so labour intensive.
He added, "I am attempting to balance the rights of the people of the community to be safe and the rights of the defendants".
He's attempting several genres.
Clytemnestra is attempting total repression.
He's attempting to coöperate.
Civilization is attempting a comeback.
Today, they were attempting eight.
