7 sentences with 'unsuccessful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unsuccessful and other words derived from it.
• « Various factions attempted to impose and maintain censorship, but were largely unsuccessful due to the political fragmentation of the period. »
• « Peter the Great waged an unsuccessful war against the Ottomans in 1711, but captured some Turkish territories in the process; he also took the Baltic territories of Livonia and Estonia from what was then the unified kingdom of Poland - Lithuania (a state that began a rapid and painful decline over the course of the century). »
• « At one point, Louis even attempted to invade England; this possible invasion was so unsuccessful that it exists as a footnote in military history rather than the main event of something like the Spanish Armada. »
• « What set Spain apart from the other Fascist powers was that Franco was acutely aware of his relative weakness and deliberately avoided an expansionist foreign policy; Hitler once spent an unsuccessful day trying to convince him to join the war once the Second World War began. »
• « Just then, his phone rang. It was Sergeant Flores, who, after filling him in on his unsuccessful search, expressed concern that the case was out of the ordinary: Edwin was in a crowded place, he had suddenly disappeared, and so far no one had reported finding a child. »
• « After two unsuccessful attempts to land, the plane kept circling in circles waiting to try again. »