Sentence examples for longest attempt from inspiring English sources

Entering the game, his previous long field goal was 47 yards, and his longest attempt -- a miss against Syracuse earlier this year -- was from 49 yards.

Nugent made four field goals Sunday, a career high in a game, before barely missing the 53-yarder, the longest attempt of his career.

It would represent humanity's longest attempt at consciously communicating through time.

It was obvious that the longest attempts were made by those of visitors who left the slideshow open in the background while not paying attention to it.

It was a night indicative of Collins's season-long attempt to find a strong lineup.

But his month-long attempt to broker an inclusive government failed.

After three timeouts, Northwestern got a long attempt from Drew Crawford that hit the backboard as time expired.

Colonel Qaddafi's long attempt to eliminate the government left Libya in shambles, its sagging infrastructure belying its oil wealth.

This is the vexing lesson of Fountain's long attempt to get noticed by the literary world.

The move continues a season-long attempt to improve a bullpen that was the worst in baseball in 2010.

EUROPE'S year-long attempt to grapple with the sovereign-debt crisis is becoming more nailbiting by the day.