8 sentences with 'attempt'
Example sentences and phrases with the word attempt and other words derived from it.
• « The surgeon has to decide whether to attempt to remove a tumor when the operation is likely to kill the patient, or to stop the operation when it is almost over, in the knowledge that months or years later even greater risks will have to be faced. »
• « The rescuers working inside the mine knew that any attempt to remove the boulder under which the teenager was trapped could cause a cave-in. But they had to try. »
• « Between the three of them they foil Cardinal Richelieu's attempt to ridicule the royal family. »
• « Likewise, the absence of advanced technologies was no impediment to the attempt to understand the world. »
• « In 513 BC Darius I led a gigantic invasion of Central Asia in an attempt to put an end to the Scythian incursions once and for all; he was forced to retreat without winning a decisive victory, but his army was still intact and he had added Thrace (modern Bulgaria) to the empire. »
• « Each time the Greeks were victorious, the Persians eventually decided to abandon the attempt to conquer Greece as too costly. »
• « The last major Hellenistic attempt to roll back Roman control came in the early 1st century BC, with the rise of a Greek king, Mithridates VI, from Pontus, a small kingdom on the southern shore of the Black Sea. »