Sentence examples for attempting to please from inspiring English sources

The phrase "attempting to please" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's efforts to satisfy or make someone happy, often in a social or professional context.
Example: "She was always attempting to please her boss, hoping for a promotion."
Alternatives: "trying to satisfy" or "striving to make happy".

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For Romney, the danger is that of going too far in attempting to please every constituency.

In translating the idea for New York, the chef, Harold Moore, has gone upscale with cocktails and lobster alongside the meatballs and mac and cheese, attempting to please anyone and everyone willing to pay his notably un-country prices.

In America, governance is challenging enough with only two parties; it's hard to imagine congress attempting to please 10 different parties.

Discounting the indignities of security - which, after all, is not the fault of the airlines - air travel lacks accountability or even a tinge of attempting to please the customer.

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He's like you and I, the child within who attempts to please and then fails.

During the election campaign he attempted to please both sides by promising to amend Greece's deal with creditors.

On Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall, she operated in a realm far removed from most performers' attempts to please a crowd: a realm of long memory, odd caprices and ambivalence about the confines of pop.

At the same time, the confidence that American lenders had in the rule of law, probably one of the main pillars of the economy, was demolished by government actions that invalidated some lenders' long-held legal rights in favor of ad hoc attempts to please various political constituencies.

It attempts to please all of the people — but thankfully stops short of trying to do so all of the time.

She has attempted to please authority no matter if it is good or bad".

You guys however are the beautiful and innocent truth which it attempts to please in order to feed itself.

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