Sentence examples for attempt to be something from inspiring English sources

Really, the Pixelbook is an attempt to be something for everyone.

So many brands today attempt to be something they are not.

Maze Grill, though, is attempting to be something entirely other.

There is something else: today's players can sense when a coach is attempting to be something he is not.

This is comfort food ruined by its attempts to be something spicier – a good piece of cheese on toast buried underneath five kilos of chilli paste.

HP's first attempt at a consumer tablet failed simply because it attempted to be something special.

Proof: more than one of Mr. Trump's opponents has fared poorly by attempting to be something they are not.

Keeping up with the Kardashians is a show about fake women trying to be perceived as real; Scott is unquestionably its realest character by virtue of attempting to be something fake.

And the assassination attempt seems to be something that is important for the story, for the way that the story is presented later, to dramatize something that may not have been at the time as dramatic as it seemed.

The design by Mr. Adjmi is full of echoes of the industrial past of TriBeCa, while attempting, he said, to be something entirely new and different as well.

It was a bipartisan blunder, proposed by both Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton in an attempt to be seen doing something for the ordinary folks.