Sentence examples for attempted and failed from inspiring English sources

Reconciliation has been attempted and failed.

Theatre has often attempted and failed to explore notions of madness and evil.

With "Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheimm has achieved what many have attempted and failed: a successful American musical drama.

Given that lack of preparedness, they attempted and failed to improvise an effective homeland defense against an unprecedented challenge.

On Sunday night's game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Detroit Pistons guard attempted, and failed, to contest DeAndre Jordan's Dunk of the Year.

The city had not provided proper documentation authenticating those items -- items it had attempted, and failed, to include in the previous year's budget.

Although a Japanese cult-group, Aum Shinrikyo, planned to use biological weapons they actually attempted and failed to disseminate biological agents for terrorist purposes.

By Shawn Vestal April 6, 2016 Forty-two yeago ago, Evel Knievel attempted — and failed — to ride a rocket, built by Scott Truax's father, across the Snake River Canyon, in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Some of the top of his voice has gone, but except for one attempted and failed high note in "Stairway to Heaven" ("There walks a la-dy we all know... ..), he found other melodic routes to suit him.

Patchell slipping over as he attempted - and failed - to draw the Blues level with another penalty shot merely seemed to underline the nature of the contest thus far.

In deed, with far less than 1percentt of their mammoth sovereign funds, almost any of the Gulf States could, on their own tab, have provided all of the $1.266 billion dollars that the UNHCR attempted -- and failed -- to raise last year for Syrian refugee relief.