Sentence examples for you were attempting from inspiring English sources

(b) That you were attempting a nude Heimlich maneuver.

It excited me and changed my whole view of what you could do as a writer, whatever medium you were attempting – Kubrick's aspiration to be original.

When Adorno sent along a scenario for an ill-conceived music-theatre piece based on Mark Twain, Benjamin's unconcealed disdain—"I believe I can imagine what you were attempting here"—probably caused Adorno to abandon the project.

When Adorno sent along a scenario for an ill-conceived music-theatre piece based on Mark Twain, Benjamin's unconcealed disdain — "I believe I can imagine what you were attempting here" — probably caused Adorno to abandon the project.

"If you haven't accomplished your goal you are left with the unpalatable choice of extending the timeline, diminishing your objective, or being forced to take the kind of military action you were attempting to avoid," said David Rothkopf, who wrote a history of the National Security Council.

Instead, the most efficient place to position your mallet is eight to ten inches directly in front of your goal, where you can head off oncoming shots without the kind of hysterical lunging that might otherwise land you belly down on the table, legs akimbo and abdomen bruised, as if you were attempting to dislodge an errant ort from your windpipe by self-administering the Heimlich maneuver.

Right now you're attempting small things.

You are attempting to svindle me!

What you are attempting is closer to Beckenbauer than Zagallo.

In other words, in seeking to make an instrumental tie you are attempting to use someone.

It's hard to develop expertise when you're attempting such a range of work.