Sentence examples for i was attempted from inspiring English sources

A further delivery of 16 Spitfires, Operation Picket I, was attempted on 21 March, but this was less successful; only nine of the planes arrived.

I was attempting to kill him.

What I was attempting to do was exactly the opposite.

I was attempting to discover if the story was true.

As soon as I was discharged I was attempting suicide again.

In retrospect, it's unmistakable that I was attempting to prove to myself that I existed.

"They had to do what I was attempting to do in dim candlelight.

One of the reasons was that I was attempting to revive an old TierneyLab tradition.

"I was attempting to look suave and couldn't even speak.

"I might seem as though I was attempting to influence the outcome".

I was attempting to look fetching in a white trouser suit that was quickly becoming speckled.