How To Use Tempt In A Sentence

  • It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
  • Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
  • The most interesting statistic on the list is the large number of accidents where the pilot attempted to land with the gear down with amphibious floats.
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  • With check-in times now prolonged because of security issues, traders are lapping up even more business as they tempt us with their trinkets and gewgaws.
  • And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  • Airline officials are calling the attack a suicide attempt.
  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
  • But she insisted she was not tempted to follow in their footsteps. The Sun
  • An attempt will be made to identify best practice, to help bridge the gap between theoretical prescriptions and practical modelling procedures.
  • So there is a perennial temptation to appeal to the idea of arbitrariness when discussing the alleged informational nature of some biological causation. Biological Information
  • Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
  • After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
  • This blogger is a seriously insecure woman who needs to examine her shaky sense of privilege before again attempting to write about transpeople. The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office
  • In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
  • These were monitoring variables like humidity and temperature, information that is invaluable to the horticulturalists attempting to propagate the trees.
  • This isn't an attempt to universalize, for there is rich, specific detail everywhere: food, foliage, the course of the conflict. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
  • After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
  • For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
  • This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
  • Any attempt to disprove the theory of evolution using thermodynamics will require proper formalisms.
  • Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
  • A similar attempt at reconciling Absolute Idealism and monadism had been made by Lotze, and in both cases it remains an open question whether this is not pre-established harmony in disguise. Francis Herbert Bradley
  • Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
  • All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
  • Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
  • The next posts are often about useless slimming products and they might be tempted to buy them without seeking proper advice. The Sun
  • Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
  • Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
  • The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.
  • Other are supporting the attempt to make it less straightforward to obtain ebooks through a library. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even where, for example in an unfair dismissal case, the employment tribunal makes an order that the employee be re-employed by the employer in one way or another, if the employer fails to do so there is no contempt of court.
  • More troubleshooting is attempted none of which remedies the situation. Xbox Live Won't Refund Points For Game They Can't Deliver - The Consumerist
  • In terms of structure, an attempt should have been made to sectionize the book according to themes. Undefined
  • I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
  • Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
  • In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
  • To counter both this and the high levels of private label saturation, bakery and cereals manufacturers are attempting to differentiate their brands, especially in growth areas such as healthy and convenient bakery products. Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
  • Selling alcohol at truck stops is an unnecessary temptation for drivers.
  • Attempts to rip it off gave me a sprained wrist. The Sun
  • Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui". Armed and Dangerous
  • Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
  • Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
  • mousetrapping" problem with your browser that won't let you get out of endless attempts to get the action you desire from clicking, close out of the browser completely by hitting ctrl-alt-del. and then terminating the browser. Undefined
  • By using an affirmation, you are attempting to shift yourself so that you can do or be something even though your mind doesn't accept it yet.
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
  • Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
  • You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
  • Another modern attempt to make a classic 1930s screwball comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • It widely considered the president's attempt to save a sliver of his otherwise, rather soily international legacy. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Marti was scheduled to return for another attempt to drain the fluid when her perinatologist told her she had made an appointment for Marti at Children's Hospital's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. TTTS — Dicus
  • By appealing to these absolutes, the president has attempted to endow his cause with a kind of ultimacy, in which ‘those who are not for us are against us.’
  • Why, you try cutting them out, stop eating them, avoiding temptation.
  • The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
  • Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
  • What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
  • This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum.
  • We've gotten better with our techniques and applying them predeparture, ensuring we're looking at as broad a section of potential risk as possible, said Kevin McAleenan, deputy assistant commissioner of field operations at Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.CBP said the gap in U.S. security practices wasn't obvious until after the attempted Christmas attack. U.S. blocks 350 with suspected ties to terrorists
  • Speaking of rounding tight corners, the Daily News reports that some messengers attempted to promote cycling in Queens this past weekend by holding an alleycat called "BLVDS of DEATH: Archive 2010-09-01
  • Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
  • Don't lose your tempter, act too aggressive, or harshly criticize your children.
  • These waves of films - and previous attempts at 3D-television broadcasting - used what's known as the anaglyph method of imaging. The Engineer - News
  • Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
  • The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out.
  • They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik. Knowledge is Power
  • She was arrested and charged with treason, a capital offence, but made no attempt to deny her actions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Present-day economic, social and political conditions are identified and an outline description of their origins is attempted.
  • The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
  • Most nurses are groomed and institutionalized to believe that unions are bad and unprofessional (anytime a nurse hears the term unprofessional, it is usually from management in an attempt to control behavior). Nursing Voices Forum – Meet other nurses, share your nursing knowledge and experiences
  • He succeeded in his attempt to break the world record.
  • Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
  • I report here an observation of attempted predation by a tayra in the western Amazon, in Acre, Brazil.
  • At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent.
  • A whole battery of measures was tried in an attempt to get them to give up cigarettes.
  • How many bands have attempted to recapture the mood and style of their naive years? Times, Sunday Times
  • He failed in his attempt to take control of the company.
  • Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
  • Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
  • The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
  • We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
  • Solutions attempted in piecemeal fashion, as we've seen thus far, would amount to constantly putting out recurring fires. State Bailouts? They've Already Begun
  • For any company the temptation to squirrel away funds is powerful. Times, Sunday Times
  • They didn't admit they were defeated; they began to recruit and attempted to stage a comeback.
  • I resisted the strong temptation to tell him to go jump off a cliff, and kept quiet.
  • His fleshless snout made stunted attempts at movement while he spoke, though his speech was clear and articulated.
  • There might be a temptation to cheat if students sit too close together.
  • A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking.
  • She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
  • Wood, Bruner, and Ross (1976) in one of the first attempts to define the term, itemise six: April « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
  • In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.
  • His second attempt was hardly more auspicious. Christianity Today
  • I was startled at the news that 129 persons were killed last Sunday in the attempt by rebel air force officers to overthrow the government in the capital.
  • Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy 
  • He can't help but be envious of those in the private sector - there is the great temptation.
  • After the 5th attempt to "resend" I get the above message. PinStack.com
  • An interesting bit of backstory to the battle over Tim Burgess’ attempt to expand the definition of aggressive panhandling, which passed the city council 5-4 yesterday but faces a certain mayoral veto. After Giving Opponents Months to Organize Against Panhandling Proposal, Burgess Tried to Fast-Track Legislation « PubliCola
  • Orange is guessing that news will be a tempting way of getting users to pay premium prices for data downloads.
  • Multimedia is the attempt to make computers behave like television sets, only interactively.
  • England have enjoyed 27 attempts on goal in their three matches compared to 47 by their opponents. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to the police report, Officer Steven Kuhnau attempted to call the scammer, posing as a student in need of software. News
  • Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
  • What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
  • Kate was tempted to say that she'd grown but before she could speak Julie grinned; at least she still had the buckteeth. FALLEN WOMEN
  • There have been endless attempts to relabel and reappropriate. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A bold attempt is half success. 
  • She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
  • He called the advertising a blatant attempt to buy votes for the coming election.
  • Alex's first attempt to save his friend from the rough sex maniac went sour, but he's determined to try again regardless of the consequences.
  • The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves. It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
  • This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
  • An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.
  • Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication.
  • They have already taken a sunset swim and caught a fish at their first attempt at fishing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
  • Crawfish King and Hot Space attempted to challenge their unbeaten rival on the backstretch but were no match for Lost in the Fog, who was ridden out after gaining a commanding five-length lead entering the stretch.
  • Once we hit our eighties the temptation is to stay indoors and just sit around. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frenetic attempts to distract and comfort him may actually overstimulate him and increase his levels of arousal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope.
  • I am always tempted to revise more for my stronger topics.
  • This has proved invaluable in solving every crime in which the perpetrator is attempting anonymity.
  • The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
  • Since then, there have been sporadic attempts at least to get individual westerns off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • The way he's overcome adversity has been a real inspiration - and in a vain attempt to copy him I'm following his training programme as I prepare for my first duathlon.
  • Both warrior and martyr alike join forces in the town and attempt to keep the peace.
  • Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
  • This lack of action may also trigger some legal action from insurance companies in an attempt to recoup cash paid out to flooded households. Times, Sunday Times
  • The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials.
  • A passive-aggressiveness marches through it: On one hand, Capitol doubts its salability and keeps it off the market; on the other, the label constantly attempts to justify its importance by hailing every burp and burble emanating from the recording booth. Pet Sounds : It's Not Rock 'n' Roll, But We Like It
  • His stunt mimics magician David Blaine's attempt to survive 72 days in a glass box above London but Michael decided he would use the idea to raise cash for charity.
  • Hospital staff were tempted to give a name to the the unknown child.
  • Objective: The study attempts to find initial relationship between olfactory perception favor and individual personality, to explore a new route in research of personality at behavior level.
  • Wesson meant for his plan to be triggered if police or employees with Child Protective Services — people he called devils — attempted to break up his family, she has argued. Wesson’s speedy trial a rarity
  • Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
  • Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
  • THE man who went undercover in an attempt to expose the bung culture in English football was keeping a low profile again yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earlier attempts to incorporate social and economic history into art history usually focused on macrosocial and macroeconomic issues.
  • The murderer attempted to escape from law punishment by spoiling his own face.
  • The worthies on the committee also attempted to explain why those mistakes - in surveillance, in intelligence-gathering, analysis and co-ordination - were made.
  • Despite all our attempts to break it open, the lock would not yield.
  • All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
  • He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
  • Others attempted to storm a naval base, but were turned back by police.
  • Any attempt to incorporate it after the contract is made will be unsuccessful.
  • There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
  • The first uses what AirTight now alternately refers to as a "vulnerability" or a "limitation" in the 802.11 specification: a shared encryption key called the group temporal key (GTK), shared by all clients connected to the same access point, can't detect an address spoofing attempt (the pairwise keys, which are used to scramble data between a given client and the access point, can). AirTight defends Wi-Fi WPA2 'vulnerability' claim
  • A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
  • True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • The Town Hall seems fair game for criticism, but in fact there has been a concerted attempt, especially in the past few years, to get things moving.
  • Most attempts to quantify the effect of a separation are speculative. Times, Sunday Times
  • They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
  • feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
  • Various rather crude attempts are being made to whip up opposition to such options.
  • The attempt ended in abject failure.
  • Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
  • Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
  • A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
  • The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
  • Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
  • In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
  • Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
  • A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place; and though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity, and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • If I didn't have a shoulder to lean on or a compassionate ear willing to listen to me rant, I might've been tempted to quit.
  • He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
  • But when she spots a tin of cash lying around, she is sorely tempted to commit a dastardly act. The Sun
  • It is a challenging question without a clear answer, but some tentative suggestions can be attempted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
  • In all three cases the conclusion reached was that a deliberate intention to breach the order was not a necessary element for a finding of contempt of court.
  • I made him what I thought were several tempting offers, but he wouldn't bite.
  • The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
  • Roosevelt's National Recovery Act NRA attempted to cartelize the American economy just as Mussolini had cartelized Italy's. In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two."
  • Attempts to reconcile religious differences have been going on for years. Times, Sunday Times
  • After several attempts and most of the matches, she lit a small fire.
  • The recent calculations reviewed in the article go beyond the valence approximation and attempt to improve the approach to continuum by a logarithmic factor relative to previous simulations.
  • Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
  • In short, I told them that U-13 should be destroyed and that we should not attempt to deliver Marburg by aerosol. CHAMELEON
  • Attempts to locate the lorry at Harwich International Port were unsuccessful.
  • This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
  • It looked like a boffo debut for him and his attempt to go Hollywood.
  • The temptation for the project maintainer is to keep multiple legacy interfaces coordinated with the latest version.
  • Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
  • What selfish purpose is served by a crass attempt to hide something that stands no chance at all of escaping notice? Times, Sunday Times
  • Nigerian government of what it called blatant contempt for the rule of law. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They have bad manners, contempt for authority and no respect for older people.
  • No attempt to rebook, no real apology, barely more than a sentence really. The Sun
  • He closed his eyes and allowed himself one final rest before he attempted to move again.
  • Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.
  • I'm thinking my next project will be a hat, although I need to learn more before I try it, because my other attempts have mostly ended in failure, with me taking out all the stiches. Archive 2010-01-01
  • The dragon roared and forced its claws in and ripped its hole wider in an attempt to force its way into the town.
  • Mandeep attempted to explain that his patka was not a hat, but rather an article of faith that must remain on his head.
  • The problem is severest for women, who in Colombia are held in contempt or deemed disreputable for working at all.
  • I'm sure Sergen meant well and simply wanted to share his pleasure with the widest possible audience, yet there is a dark interpretation of these events: namely, that the Besiktas players were attempting some kind of wind-up.
  • The results are invariable light, crisp and as tempting as food could possibly be, and the whole experience far less traumatic than I imagined.

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