Sentence examples for attempting to prepare from inspiring English sources

So the fact that he was in the kitchen, doing something as ordinary as attempting to prepare dinner, was better than good — it was pretty excellent.

The unusual winter flood is expected to affect people farther down the Mississippi over the coming weeks, with officials in Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans among those attempting to prepare residents for expected flooding.

This spoof fly-on-the-wall documentary, which won the Best Sitcom gong at the British Comedy Awards last year, tracks the confederacy of dunces who tie themselves in increasingly complex knots attempting to prepare for the biggest event this country has ever hosted.

He said he was keen to avoid "shroud-waving" predictions of doom ("No one follows a pessimist," he said), but was attempting to prepare the public to expect that police will be providing fewer of the services they have become used to.

While such scrutiny is difficult to fully prepare for and attempting to prepare may even be counterproductive an awareness of the situations you may encounter can be very helpful.

Acheson was attempting to prepare artificial diamonds when he heated a mixture of clay (aluminum silicate) and powdered coke (carbon) in an iron bowl.

Big food companies have seen some of these changes coming and attempted to prepare for them.

Her father, a theatre sound designer, had attempted to prepare his daughter for the life of an actor.

Their response drew on their experiences in previous riots, and they hilariously attempted to prepare the family.

The authors of the Heidelberg Catechism based the work on earlier catechetical works by themselves and others, and they attempted to prepare a catechism acceptable to all.

His trenchant theatre criticism, praising Ibsen as the most significant dramatist of the time, attempted to prepare audiences for his own plays.