Sentence examples for attempting to bore from inspiring English sources

United were simply flat, almost unrecognisably so, as if they were attempting to bore Braga into submission.

58th over: England 166-4 (in reply to South Africa's 309; Bell 51, Bairstow 59) Philander is generally bowling a fifth-stump line to Bairstow, attempting to bore him out.

Dragging the machine behind a pickup doesn't work, drilling up through the bottom doesn't either, and now we can add one more failed strategy to the list: attempting to bore into an ATM using a blowtorch.

The whelk needs a few hours to penetrate the shell and thus living in the littoral zone is an advantage to the bivalve because the gastropod can attempt to bore through the shell only when the tide is in.

And children of all ages will appreciate the cats' attempts to bear some hail and hail a whale.

When addressing fire, performance has been traditionally determined by imposing standardized requirements that necessarily attempt to bear a strong relationship with the reality of potential events – the fire performance of a protective structure is thus defined as a fire resistance period.

Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey sounds like a spirited attempt to bore racists to death.

There was quicksand beneath Sour Spring Mound, and it confounded any attempt to bore a stable hole.

It's no wonder American unions are active in China — from attempts to "bore within" the official government union to advising dissident Chinese organizers.

Indeed, he is even enthusiastic about an interview he did with a guitar magazine this morning, which sounds, to the unqualified observer at least, like a protracted attempt to bore the former teen idol to death.

Steinberg's book may succeed as a blow-by-blow account of competitors' various training regimens and as a point-to-point description of the way a triathlon is organized and progresses, but his stated ambitions were much larger: "In the end, this is a book that attempts to bore" — wait for it — "deep into the lives, minds and souls of these athletes".