Sentence examples for sloppy attempt from inspiring English sources

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He fell and ended up getting only 1 point for the sloppy attempt.

In a sloppy attempt at a coverup, a suicide note had been left at the scene, prompting a law-enforcement official to say, "He's not Harry Houdini".

In this vein, Dutton's comments about Muslims of Lebanese background becomes a sloppy attempt at positioning yet another minority under the microscope.

Much of her column amounts to little more than a sloppy attempt at guilt-by-association: Wilhelm Marr and Karl Marx blamed the Jews for the Industrial Revolution's upheavals, just like progressives are blaming "today's deep-rooted and seemingly intractable problems" on its beneficiaries.

James Peacock's sloppy attempt to offload was seized upon by his Leeds team-mate and opposing captain Danny Buderus before Leuluai carved open the defence for Tongan international Manu to cross underneath the posts.

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Every possible move, every possible contingency, from proper foot stance to recognizing Trump's sloppy attempts at any one of 32 possible Masonic hand ciphers.

His sloppy clearing attempt was batted down in the first period.

Tuesday's preview was discouraging -- I saw nothing I thought was a LeWitt, just a dozen sloppy student attempts at minimalism.

These areas are all tight and could easily look sloppy if you attempt to paint them with a large roller.

"The Hilliker Curse" is a warmer, sloppier addendum — an attempt at emotional autopsy.

But with their stupidity and irresponsibility compounding their mistakes and a sharp private detective played by Ed Harris on the case, the trio's actions become more desperate, violent, and sloppy, leading to more kidnapping attempts, murder, and dismemberment, but in ways more designed to elicit laughs than screams from the audience.

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