Sentence examples for spirited attempts from inspiring English sources

I make a few more spirited attempts at nearly half of Di Bella's machines, but, as always, I feel like I'm humoring the hobby rather than actually enjoying it.

When McCluster was in the end zone 89 yards later, the air had gone out of the Giants' spirited attempt at a first victory in the 2013 season.

Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey sounds like a spirited attempt to bore racists to death.

Evan Davis made a spirited attempt to find out - but George Osborne wasn't saying.

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," was Noam Chomsky's spirited attempt in his ground-breaking 1957 book on linguistics, Syntactic Structures.

This novel is a spirited attempt to cram her entire cultural and family heritage into a story.

It's a spirited attempt at rehabilitation and Pound asks the reader to judge for themselves if it is successful.

It was an obvious, and mean spirited, attempt to draw a comparison between Mr Browne's appearance and Shakespeare's libellous portrayal of the Yorkist king.

In this video segment shot in Minnesota, a spirited attempt to sample lutefisk leads to "a don't-eat-this seizure".

The Italian reporter made a spirited attempt at resistance, dashing down the street to interview someone whenever his translator's back was turned.

He and Wade combined to shoot 24 for 32, obliterating Chauncey Billups's spirited attempt to get his team back into the game.