Sentence examples for attempting to make something from inspiring English sources

Both Tom and Mary are trying to figure out where their futures lie, attempting to make something of the unpromising hands they've been dealt by fate.

But I can't help but look back on my own life and remember that I was that girl once, attempting to make something of myself and seeing the people on TV as more than just actors doing a job.

From the first edition of Émaux et camées (1852; "Enamels and Cameos") to the posthumously published Derniers vers (1872; "Last Verse"), he devoted himself to a form of literary miniature painting, attempting to make something aesthetically valid out of subjects for the most part deliberately chosen for their triviality.

In his latest chamber opera Blank Out, premiered as part of the Dutch National Opera's Opera Forward festival, a woman, the soprano Miah Persson, is alone on stage, attempting to make something meaningful and coherent out of what she remembers of the death of her seven-year-old son, who drowned while swimming many years earlier.

I was just getting ready to send it to everyone I know so we could all LOL together, but then somebody pointed out to me that it might be satire, rather than Bam actually attempting to make something that people might find funny.

I was just getting ready to send it to everyone I know so we could all LOL together, but somebody just pointed out to me that it might be satire, rather than Bam actually attempting to make something that people might find funny.

He linked two unrelated news events, attempted to make something of them and in doing so made an almighty mess.

They control some real-world device, such as a heater or a motor, which attempts to make something (position or temperature) match a desired value.

We'd attempt to make something funny, or beautiful, or at the very least functional.

Are you going to attempt to make something from scratch or are you going to purchase a premade something or other?

Later in the song, there's a reference to hard carbon nitrides -- the attempt to make something like artificial diamonds.