Sentence examples for house attempt from inspiring English sources

If there is a spider in your house, attempt to catch it with a glass cup, then look at it.

Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.

The Senate has already rejected one House attempt to link spending authorisation to Obamacare and its Democrat majority leader Harry Reid has pledged to block anything but a "clean" bill.

Neither house attempted to override.

Open and relaxed as it is, the Cuffs' house attempts to erect a fortress against fire.

Notably, not one of the self-described "pick-up artists" in the house attempts to bed her.

Beach House (Monday) Content with opaque synths and swooning vocals, the dream-pop duo Beach House attempted few stylistic shifts on their fourth record, "Bloom" (Sub Pop).

At the April sale, the house attempted to sell another Hirst, a pair of silk screen prints with glazed diamond dust, but it drew little interest and failed to find a buyer.

At one point our house attempted to name our mascot, however, it was very difficult to do and anyone who had not been online at this time would not even know we had named our mascot.

A few weeks later my mother-in-law arrived for a visit and, as though sensing the gaping lack of I-love-yous in the house, attempted to fill the void.

Rolf Liebermann, whose administration in the 1970s revitalized the Opéra as a world class house, attempted a "Ring" with the conductor Georg Solti, but his cycle got only so far as "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre," in controversial stagings by Peter Stein and Klaus Michael Gruber, respectively.