Sentence examples for attempt to gee from inspiring English sources

Mark Butcher's making a fairly lame attempt to gee everyone up, but to little effect.

They were always on to a loser, and before long the venue's water cannons were deployed to wash the pitch as an insanely enthusiastic man in a mint green headband made a gallant attempt to gee up the initially lukewarm crowd.

So maybe Great-Grandma Ug and the rest of her clan would attempt to gee up Kym by grunting the mesolithic equivalent of the motivational phrase that you don't get diamonds without pressure (if their knowledge of geothermal principles was up to it).

He bore the brunt of the heckling after his disapproval of Boo Weekley's attempts to gee up the crowd when he was still putting.

Faldo said the half-point that Westwood and Soren Hansen secured on the final hole against Boo Weekley and JB Holmes could be crucial, although Westwood was unimpressed by Weekley's attempts to gee up the crowd during their match.

He also needs to gee up his own administration.

They whisper encouragement to each other, to gee themselves up.

To gee up and gaddy-up is to urge onward.

There's a kidnapping, in Louise Erdrich's "Gleason," an F.B.I. stakeout to catch a bank robber in David Means's "The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934," and an attempt to foil organized crime in Keith Ridgway's "Goo Book".

The goo is a natural by-product of any attempt to grow naked mole rat cells in a Petri dish.

Attempt to leave.