Sentence examples for back and attempting to from inspiring English sources

Society reacted by drawing back and attempting to deny it, by saying, "it belongs over there to those people and expresses what they feel but will go away quickly, we hope".

Algeria responded by tightening up at the back and attempting to pounce on the counter-attack.

Some commuters, like Patrick Oster of Croton-on-Hudson, said that conductors on his Hudson Line train, "have been occasionally examining all monthly cards, scrutinizing fronts and backs and attempting to peel them apart".

Girls bound over to talk, boys hang back and attempt to look aloof.

Now they have to go back and attempt to pick up their lives again, side-by-side with their ethnic-Kyrgyz persecutors.

The opening 90 seconds of the half kind of sums up the match in microcosm, with Brazil pressing relentlessly and energetically, while Croatia sit back and attempt to build from the back under extreme pressure.

In another case, which concluded last August, investigators determined that Christopher Azzopardi, a teacher at I.S. 285 in Brooklyn, rubbed one female's back and "attempted to pull her chest to chest with him".

The men inside have been watching the news, talking to friends in other bases and waiting to see if the Russians come back and attempt to storm the base.

Safina might have retained just a sliver of hope that she could still come back and attempt to make up the deficit in the second stage of the round robin tomorrow night.

As the plane landed, the man ran to the back and attempted to open an exit door.

Every time he progresses a few "yards," the disease charges back and attempts to knock him down.