Sentence examples for attempt to sum from inspiring English sources

The series doesn't attempt to sum up the city.

I'm not going to attempt to sum up 30 years of shows.

But then the coefficient is an attempt to sum up all income differences in a single number.

For one thing, Dad hated "any attempt to sum up decades — 'The fifties were like this, the seventies like that' — it's a Newsweek magazine thing.

Combining famous and little-known images, each carefully annotated grouping doesn't attempt to sum up a career; rather, it suggests the broader scope of the artist's range.

But he misses the point: any attempt to sum what needs to change to lift people out of poverty is bound to be imperfect and a crude tool.

Mr. Gelman then attempted to sum up the entire experience.

It was that these poems were attempts to sum up everything that she found special about me.

It sounds like they've been sitting on the porch together, attempting to sum up their lives.

One user attempted to sum up the discussion: "Rapists rape, rapists are at fault for raping, rapists should stop raping, just stop raping people".

In doing so it attempted to sum up Truman's whole life, but the poster for The Tree of Life goes a step further, trying to encompass, in the same way the film does, the entire history of the universe.