Sentence examples for attempt to order from inspiring English sources

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And the capper, No. 9: "Do not ever attempt to order a cosmopolitan -- you will be asked to leave".

The Metropolitan police has dropped its attempt to order the Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal.

Borges's list is a satire on the arbitrary nature of any attempt to order the world by corralling it into a list.

With Burkean contrition, I confess that in a Thai restaurant not long ago, following my company's attempt to order three curry dishes, I suggested that we not get "curried away".

But an attempt to order a drink on the menu called a Negronino was unsuccessful because the bar did not have the amaro it is made with; two nights later another customer asked for it, same story.

Highlights include Jesse and Chester's efforts to explain to each other what their new back tattoos say; their ham-fisted infiltration of the UFO cult; Brent Spiner's appearance as a malevolent ostrich farmer; and, pick of the bunch, a thwarted attempt to order Chinese food from an un-cooperative drive-through.

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He attempts to order.

Young Philip Seymour Hoffman rests a hot hand on the icy pump and attempts to order drinks.

But my first couple of attempts to order daisies on 1-800-FLOWERS 1-800-FLOWERS 1-800-FLOWERS

It is this "discursive swamp" that Julius the lawyer attempts to order and compartmentalise.

In particular, he attempted to order a kipper and Tabasco sauce, both of which waitresses in the city denied all knowledge of.

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