Sentence examples for ludicrous effort from inspiring English sources

The corner is cleared to Santon, who thrashes a ludicrous effort high and wide from 37.72 yards.

In a ludicrous effort to refocus the attention on baseball, Selig last week ordered club officials to remain silent about the drug-policy debate.

54 min: The impressive Limbersky breaks into the area from the left, but loses his head, stabbing a ludicrous effort with the outside of his right boot into the side-netting from a tight angle.

Certainly that is the case with António Lobo Antunes's "Land at the End of the World," set in Angola in the early 1970s, as Portugal's ludicrous effort to preserve its African empire was meandering to an inglorious end.

It's a ludicrous effort, he said, referring to both walls.

Never mind that he was likely referring to his ludicrous effort, in 2009, to prevent Guantanamo detainees from being transferred to Fort Leavenworth, one of the military's securest facilities.

The loch-side investigators' ludicrous efforts to describe what they have (or haven't) seen sound a lot like Hamlet and Polonius arguing about cloudscapes: "a camel... a hedgehog... a serpent with a horse's head".

(Perhaps the ludicrous efforts of some Republicans to exploit the Secret Service sex scandal prompted Americans to rally around their President. More likely, if there is any real reason for the change, it was the fact that gas prices have fallen a bit).

His playing partner Schwartzel is a turn away from knocking in a similarly ludicrous long birdie effort, but no.

That said, he confesses to having put what even he regards as a ludicrous amount of effort into the dance moves that became "Gangnam Style", sweating across a month with his choreographer to come up with something that would work.

That ludicrous & contemptible effort to besmirch & belittle him was now 20 years past & he was saying how happy he was to learn that he had so many friends, & how the events of the evening had made him feel that he had been born again.