Sentence examples for attempted to start from inspiring English sources
Unknown to his wife he sold their business & attempted to start a magazine.
Gay-rights groups organized protests and attempted to start boycotts of some brands, but to little or no effect.
Mr. Clarke said he attempted to start a conversation, but admitted, "My opening gambit was a miserable failure".
In 1844 Charlotte attempted to start a school that she had long envisaged in the parsonage itself, as her father's failing sight precluded his being left alone.
In September, Richard Desmond attempted to start a tabloid price war by slashing the cost of the Daily Star in half to 20p.
In their Utopian phase, both Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the East European socialist countries following the communists' coups in 1948, attempted to start a new fashion from zero.
"We're attempting to start the trials," said a military prosecutor, Francis Gilligan, a retired Army colonel.
England understood that they were attempting to start all over again.
His heartbreaking attempts to start a new career as a conductor are almost equally affecting.
After graduation she worked at Billboard magazine while attempting to start her singing career.
Her parents Mitch and Janis intensified interest by attempting to start a public dialogue with their daughter.
