Sentence examples for desultory attempt from inspiring English sources

His men call him the Biss – the Cat. After a rather desultory attempt to overrun the supposed adversary, they discovered that he had claws.

After a desultory attempt at law school — he later claimed that he sent his valet to the lectures as his proxy — he passed the final exam only by chance.

I maintained just the slightest hope that perhaps I could run this off, and made a desultory attempt at a jog to the finish line, but the truth – and the pain – was swift and conclusive.

Still sprawled in the chaotic debris are the gruesome remains of several IS militants who died there, their corpses left to rot in the rubble after a desultory attempt to cremate them by pouring fuel over them and setting them alight.

While there have been desultory attempts at mining in the past, Narsaq bears little trace of it.

The Democrats made desultory attempts to revive economic populism in 2000 and in 2004: Al Gore campaigned for "the people against the powerful" and John Kerry denounced outsourcing companies.

Lohan's has been a sluggishly downbeat narrative, peppered with occasional, desultory attempts at a comeback — sometimes through acting, sometimes through fashion design, sometimes through humanitarian work.

Despite repeated urging from McClellan, General Burnside made only a few desultory attempts to cross the bridge until early afternoon, when troops from New York and Pennsylvania regiments finally braved the withering fire and established themselves on the other side of Antietam Creek.

Their desultory attempts to change course are dampened by a pervasive melancholy that no one seems capable of dispelling — least of all our easygoing protagonist, whose passivity grows increasingly wearisome with every passing scene.

(There had been some desultory attempts, mainly by French and German immigrants, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but they never achieved much in the way of scale or repute).

From 1764, when Charles Macclesfield was granted a 21 year lease to work the area, some desultory attempts to find copper were made but it was all very low key and half hearted.