Sentence examples for improvised attempt from inspiring English sources

The improvised attempt for warmth would turn out to be fatal.

A Railtrack production supervisor said the workman did not replace it, but instead used the chisel in an improvised attempt to prevent the remaining nut coming unscrewed.

Meanwhile, the German Eighth Army was under attack from the north, so elements of the Fourth, Eighth and Tenth Armies were quickly redeployed with air support in an improvised attempt to cut off any Polish break-out back towards Warsaw.

This central part of the movie is perfectly paced; Lee alternates periods of sleep and calculation with frantic activity, including another big storm and Pi's improvised attempts to stave off Richard Parker with whatever he has at hand — a spar, a knife, a nervous spray of urine to mark his turf.

The dead giveaway is that most characters speak like American reality-series contestants, improvising attempts at making certain points with believable verbal interaction.

Jetting in from his Saturday Night Live job, Murray improvised Spackler's attempts to kill the pesky rodent by shooting, drowning and rigging the course with explosives.

After each attempt, she improvised, learning what to adjust, whom to consult and which new protective protocol to consider.

Creating seemingly improvised, intimate sets, he attempts to bridge the gap between the musicians and the audience.

Allman played slide guitar (which was not employed in previous attempts) and improvised the overdubbed performance, bringing all of the members to tears.

What ensued was a hurried attempt to improvise a defense by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction.

Repairs to Tirpitz were carried out using improvised facilities at Kaafjord as it was considered too risky to attempt to move the damaged warship to Germany.