Sentence examples for attempt to best from inspiring English sources

For just that reason, Hong didn't try the triple in qualifying, but everyone suspects that she will go for it on Sunday in an attempt to best Biles.

In "Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D," our well-armed heroine is now on her fourth attempt to best the dastardly Umbrella Corporation and rescue remnants of spandex-clad humanity from the slobbering victims of the deadly T-Virus.

(Orlando Sentinel) Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of the late daredevil Evel Knievel, says he will attempt to best one of his father's achievements by jumping over 24 Coke Zero trucks at Kings Island, an Ohio amusement park.

From there runners can attempt to best their own times or even other runners.

Scaffolds have been designed as fiber-based, gel-based, or hybrid structures in an attempt to best achieve the mix of mechanical and biological properties.

As technology quickly evolves, there are numerous X-ray modalities using different tools in the attempt to best image and treat efficiently these diseases, disorders or other related clinical conditions.

Standing at Cape Canaveral with his camera in hand, Lockwood watched wearily as the latest in America's attempts to best Russia in the space race fizzled out, dropping from the sky.

Where many male poets have an uneasy relationship with their poetic forebears, attempting to best them in a kind of literary one-upmanship, McMillan falls asleep with his hero Thom Gunn on his bed, "night after night / open at the spine".

However, in their attempts to best represent the physical processes of erosion and deposition, these models require large and detailed input datasets.

Our experiment was designed to study specifically the interactive effects of nitrogen and water stresses in a way that attempted to best mimic field conditions: chronic nitrogen limitation and transient drought.

The reviews represent an attempt to encourage best practices, Mrs. Kornbluh said.