Sentence examples for clumsy attempt from inspiring English sources

The penalty for Puyol's clumsy attempt to tackle Fàbregas followed.

Instead, it had been a clumsy attempt at humour.

The clumsy attempt to smear Navalny provoked a torrent of scorn online from his supporters.

While Schultz's clumsy attempt to rebrand the term billionaire is amusing, it's also instructive.

If it was a clumsy attempt to access the hotel's network, it thankfully failed.

Instead it kind of looks to me like another clumsy attempt to sell merchandise.

The IRS's defenders insist that a few low-level functionaries simply made a clumsy attempt at an administrative short-cut.

Indeed, in a clumsy attempt to finesse that rejection, it did not even produce a revised platform for this election.

He tripped, artfully, over the clumsy attempt by Emir Spahic to stop him at the edge of the penalty box.

The adviser called the move "a clumsy attempt to balance the administration's more distant stance on China".

What may be a money box teeters precariously on a step, a clumsy attempt at spatial illusion.