Sentence examples for modest stab at from inspiring English sources

The Obama Administration made only one modest stab at diplomacy.

(Chinen) BOZ SCAGGS (Monday and Tuesday) "Speak Low" (Decca) is a stab at the Great American Songbook by this well-tested rock and soul man, and it works better than most efforts: Mr. Scaggs has a nice feel for languor and wry regret, and he trusts his modest range as a singer.

IT is a strange feeling, sitting in Má Pêche on a Friday night, well underneath Midtown in the basement of the Chambers Hotel, Modest Mouse playing at half volume on the stereo system as people drink wine and talk and stab at sticky pork ribs with chopsticks.

A stab at modernity?

It takes a stab at identifying it.

Walker took another stab at the song.

So here is a stab at one.

But Larry Hardesty took a stab at it.

Fancy a stab at that?

Mr. Hoyt took a stab at it.

A stab at crude fictional reparation.