Sentence examples for close attempts from inspiring English sources

There have been occasional close attempts, but no bullseye.

Garnett could have pulled the Celtics closer in the fourth quarter, but he missed badly on two close attempts to the basket, and the Lakers answered with a layup from Lamar Odom.

Stoudemire turned on the star power in the third quarter, when he scored 16 points on jump shots and driving layups, drawing fouls on seemingly every close attempt.

Rodallega then came close, attempting a lob that the Stoke keeper could not reach but Ryan Shawcross raced back and scrambled clear.

One by one, every resident in the room began to reach out when the balloon came close, attempting to hit it up in the air.

A close attempt to studying strand asymmetry in nucleotide composition in chloroplast genomes failed to detect the patterns we observe, because of their approach of studying the entire strand at once [ 26].

Even the closest attempts by Dong Son craftsmen at imitating Chinese models resulted in original works.

Keane headed over as the Owls pressed, while at the other end a wayward Adam Clayton shot and an Adam Forshaw lob were Boro's closest attempts.

The title is almost un-translatable into English; the closest attempts have been "rough and tumble" and "pitched battle".

No one has successfully crossed the Northwest Passage by human power, but author Kevin Vallely made one of the closest attempts in 2013 a rowing trip made possible by the dramatic impacts of climate change in Canada's far north.

Perhaps the closest attempt at the latter was the Lutheran Book of Concord, produced in Germany in 1580.