Sentence examples for attempt and fail from inspiring English sources

On the executive floor, Steve Toussaint and Jacqueline McKenzie attempt and fail to deliver dramatic gravitas, their conversations encompassing political manoeuvring, staff promotions/demotions and the possibility of a mole.

That's not something that's possible over Bluetooth, and I've seen other Kickstarter projects attempt and fail to make it happen with a custom-coded solution.

I would time and again attempt and fail to recall what it was I had forgotten with respect to the fact of the so called empty space between the stars not actually being empty the black space the apparent uniform blackness between the stars in fact not actually empty the coincidence or the overlapping of two periods.

At the vice presidential debate, we witnessed a freshman college republican attempt and fail at debating the experienced tenured professor.

Questions of why people attempt veganism may, in the end, be far less important than why they attempt and fail, e.g., dietary recidivism.

History teaches us that self-anointed messiahs who brutally attempt and fail to foment apocalyptic Armageddon's are often betrayed by their own.

He spoke in interviews of substance abuse, a suicide attempt and failed relationships.

Most people who attempt suicide and fail are later glad they failed.

Reconciliation has been attempted and failed.

Larry made two more attempts and failed at both.

Theatre has often attempted and failed to explore notions of madness and evil.