Sentence examples for attempt prove from inspiring English sources

A12 Will this human cloning attempt prove to be a milestone or a forgettable blunder?

Should his takeover attempt prove successful, the club's former vice-chairman David Dein - who sold his shareholding to Usmanov last year - could make a controversial return to Arsenal as part of the new regime.

When this first breeding attempt proved unsuccessful, Mr. Burnett attributed it to the young birds' inexperience.

For most of the migrants, the failure of the ship to mount any rescue attempt proved fatal.

FRANK: No, I was never called upon to give my approval and that was the reason why before long this, my last, attempt proved to be a failure.

Lefkowitz's group tried the standard tactic inoculating a llama to stimulate its immune system to produce the needed antibodies but each attempt proved unsuccessful.

The painted one ($120), with its flecks of lavender, was almost wearable, in a shock-of-the-new way, though a quick try-on attempt proved otherwise.

My first attempt proves that "sass" lives right next door to "ass", and I produce something worthy of the farm animals outside.

(Shortly before the 1989 invasion, a group of second-level officers did try to oust General Noriega, but the attempt proved a failure, with the leaders summarily executed).

Results of this attempt proved that the S.L.S. model with tuned parameters significantly improves the fidelity of finite element (FE) model to experimental results.

Their best attempt proved to be an off-balance try that had little chance and off to overtime both teams went.