Sentence examples for attempt to make something from inspiring English sources

So an attempt to make something, to fictionalize and make something seem more than it actually is.

Later in the song, there's a reference to hard carbon nitrides -- the attempt to make something like artificial diamonds.

Three times in the first half he accelerated away from his markers in an attempt to make something happen.

They accused the Independent, which broke the story, of "a desperate attempt to make something out of nothing".

"The first anguished attempt to make something — anything" out of the Bicentennial, according to an editorial in the Washington Post, was "distinguished by commercial and ideological hucksterism".

Festen, for example, he characterises as, "an attempt to make something truthful and honest, that was breathing in a naked way".

They control some real-world device, such as a heater or a motor, which attempts to make something (position or temperature) match a desired value.

He linked two unrelated news events, attempted to make something of them and in doing so made an almighty mess.

Some of the strongest passages of dialogue in "Spy" feel like drink-driven attempts to make something lucid or funny out of an irredeemably miserable perception of life.

Both Tom and Mary are trying to figure out where their futures lie, attempting to make something of the unpromising hands they've been dealt by fate.

There were two documentaries -- one about Kyoto, the other a history of Japanese film -- and there were attempts to make something called "Hollywood Zen".