Sentence examples for attempts at making from inspiring English sources

But to some reporters, those attempts at making nice have come late.

My attempts at making her perform simple tasks are met with bafflement and tail flicking.

Vice-chancellors said attempts at making economies have been frustrated by the Treasury.

There were also a few attempts at making pilings from recycled plastic, but the results were problematic.

Perhaps it was an ill-conceived extension of the government's recent attempts at making inroads in Africa.

Yet each time, he would be sucked back into gaming, his attempts at making it in the movies thwarted.

But he was still disconcertingly quiet, and all her bubbling attempts at making conversation bounced right off him.

Even attempts at making life a bit more bearable have a whiff of dark humor about them.

It's certainly a better idea, in my mind, than Tofurky and all of the other overprocessed attempts at making a vegan turkey.

Rimsky-Korsakov – that great enabler and wizard of orchestration – and much later Shostakovich each had two attempts at making Mussorgsky's only completed opera, Boris Godunov, "better".

Even when you are feeling hate, ask yourself: "How can I get back to love?" Avoid "pseudo-attempts" at making things better.