Sentence examples for woeful attempt from inspiring English sources

Toure needed the assistance of a woeful attempt to find Scholes by Carrick.

A woeful attempt at par from close range on the 16th supplied the perfect illustration of that.

Philippe Senderos will be relieved there are no embarrassing close ups of his woeful attempt at a high kicking clearance which let in Benzema.

A full-back might have cut it out but there was only Memphis Depay in the vicinity, and a woeful attempt at a headed backpass simply let in Glen Johnson to set up Bojan Krkic for the opening goal.

If the Heat and the Knicks were publicly feuding, the pupil and the teacher were feuding privately: Riley taking shots at Van Gundy for his woeful attempt at a peacemaking role in the Mourning-Larry Johnson fight; Van Gundy seeing a cold, impersonal side to a man he admired more than almost anyone else in the profession.

Dave Pelzer may have been forced to eat his own vomit and been beaten with a broom, but he never had to sit through The Boys In Blue, C&B's woeful attempt to transfer their talents to the big screen, in an otherwise deserted cinema in Bradford on a Friday afternoon.

A woeful attempted cross ensues.

If cinema-goers weren't put off by a sex scene set in Smithfield meat market then they certainly were by Raymond's woeful attempts at acting.

There is the glorious plotting that laces the book tighter than a drum, and any number of wonderful comic set pieces, from the world's worst tube journey to Michael's woeful attempts to write a sex scene.

Arsenal were struggling desperately, a problem exemplified by the hapless Andre Santos's woeful attempts to defend their left-flank in the face of the pace and penetration of Antonio Valencia.

Credit must go to food writer and stylist Carol Tennant, who kindly advises me how to cut baklava neatly after seeing my woeful early attempts online.