Sentence examples for thin attempts from inspiring English sources
"I think I'm having an anxiety attack," April goes on, over Rory's thin attempts to console her.
The creaky old comedy often seems fresher than the thin attempts to add emotional layers to the characters through song.
He's a lot better at unrequited love than the show's admittedly thin attempts at slapstick humor.
Its thin attempts to discredit Wohl and his deceptions have the opposite effect, playing right into his hand.
"I'm thinking about majoring in business, but I don't know," he said, fingering a thin attempt at a mustache.
On Election Day, the country's security forces will be stretched thin attempting to prevent any possible violence, a situation the Shabab might take advantage of, he said.
"This is a thin attempt to try to force me to pass a budget that spends billions more than the state can afford," he said at a news conference in Niagara Falls.
The thin attempt to "disguise" the figure in its current iteration does not impact the fact that you are plainly trading on Mr. Jobs image…".
David Crawford of Radio Times commented that "The D'oh-cial Network" features "a rather thin attempt to parody The Social Network".
Rebels north of Aleppo had already been stretched thin, attempting to balance fronts against the regime, the Islamic State, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and their allies.
Just as many professionals torpedo their chances of success by clinging to outmoded goals, others fail to generate meaningful accomplishments because they spread their energy too thin and attempt to accomplish too much at once.
