Sentence examples for gallant attempt from inspiring English sources

The strawberry parfait looked pretty enough and was a gallant attempt at a decadent dessert.

Could it simply be a gallant attempt to reduce the levels of pressure on his fellow Briton?

In "Rabbit, Run," John Updike makes a gallant attempt to salvage a shimmer of desirability from the pregnant frame of Harry Angstrom's wife.

In "Rubber Bullets" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), for instance, Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist, makes a gallant attempt to weave Israel's new readiness to face up to its past with its crisis of conscience during the Palestinian intifada.

THE Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, in its 18th season, is having its way with "The Merry Wives of Windsor," in a gallant attempt to mine pleasure from a third-tier play.

Trainer Edward Creighton's three-year-old made a gallant attempt to make all the running on her seasonal debut, having all her rivals at full stretch but not quite being able to hold Pascal Bary's runner in a tight finish.

Shocked out of your gallant attempts not to look at my undergarments, you come to my defense before he could start searching me for the drugs I didn't (and have literally never) possess.

On Sunday, Jennings's mind was on a gallant, desperate attempt to reach the Olympic standard, but he went through 400 meters in 61.42 seconds and 800 meters in 2 00.70.

A three-time semi-finalist in addition to her march to the title match three years ago, Lisicki snuffed out Stosur's gallant fightback attempt early in the second set to break the Queenslander with two scorching returns.

Despite the joint statement, however, Thicke appeared blindsided by their decision to break up and since February has made several gallant public attempts to win back his wife -- even titling his latest album "Paula" as an apology.

In 1895 he delivered a moving speech before the South Carolina constitutional convention in a gallant but futile attempt to prevent the virtual disfranchisement of blacks.