6 sentences with 'unsuccessfully'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unsuccessfully and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, in 1526 Charles V allowed the German princes to choose whether or not to enforce his ban on Lutheranism as they saw fit, in the hope that they would continue to offer him military aid - he tried unsuccessfully to revoke this reluctant toleration in 1529, but it was too late. »
• « Rulers had long struggled, unsuccessfully, to impose their language as the everyday vernacular in the regions over which they ruled, but most people still spoke regional dialects that often had little in common with the language of their monarch. »
• « Even smaller nations like Italy, which had fought unsuccessfully to wrest territory from Austria, lost more than 450,000 men. »
• « During Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as Soviet premier, another Eastern Bloc nation tried unsuccessfully to break away from Soviet domination: Czechoslovakia. »
• « Even before the war, Sartre was famous for his philosophical work and for his novel Nausea, which described a "hero" trying unsuccessfully to find meaning in life after realising that his actions were all ultimately futile. »
• « I was waiting for a medical examination at the base hospital when I overheard a Marine NCO ask, unsuccessfully, for new glasses from the medical staff, even though he didn't have an appointment. »