Sentences with attempting
at·tempt
A a - To attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- To attempt a person's life.
- An elderly man has died after attempting a U-turn on the Metropolitan Ring Road in Melbourne's north-east this morning.
- A Melbourne man who was on trial for deliberately infecting two men with HIV and attempting to infect 11 more was found guilty on a majority.
- He made an attempt to swim across the lake.
- An attempt upon the leader's life.
- Which is attempting to change its overwhelmingly white male workforce.
- Iran is attempting to draw up plans to strike targets in Europe and has reconnoitered European nuclear power stations.
- The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet.