Sentence examples for efforts to make something from inspiring English sources

We've become better at responding when there is an emergency, but until now we've really fallen flat in our efforts to make something that will last".

"There's an ongoing effort to make something political out of this," he said.

Was there a concerted effort to make something that would get on the radio?

Why, except for purely selfish reasons, would anybody spend his day in an effort to make something worth less in the afternoon than it was in the morning?

Or, as Mr. Nelson says: "It takes a lot of effort to make something look as if it's been there forever, as if it's old.

"It's just like any holiday -- it's an effort to make something that is a lot of hard work fun.

"It takes a lot of effort to make something appear effortless," said Graham Stewart, who owns Art Crating, which specializes in moving oversize and complicated art.

Robbie Joseph is still struggling to find his rhythm and in an effort to make something happen Rob Key, the Kent captain, has turned to his part-time bowlers Darren Stevens and Martin van Jaarsveld.

Smith is at risk of becoming the new Tom Cruise — someone who, even in repose, glows red-hot with clench-jawed tension and whose laid-back humor seems disciplined and forced with the effort to make something of nothing or even less.

Adams (1985, p. 44) explains that because euphemisms are "an effort to make something sound especially nice … a euphemistic formation can easily turn into its opposite".

Mostly though it shows Apple recognizing it expended a lot of engineering effort to make something most iPhone users don't use and don't want to use — given, as TC's Brian Heater has called it, the iPhone XR is the iPhone for the rest of us.