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Example sentences for "attempt made"

  • An attempt made by Reynier to redeem the day with his cavalry, was totally unsuccessful.

  • An attempt made by a subsequent pasha in accordance with secret orders from Constantinople was so far successful that some of the beys were killed.

  • The old regime was not restored without an attempt made by an adherent of the Tulunids to reconquer Egypt ostensibly for their benefit, and for a time the caliph's viceroy had to quit the capital.

  • It remains yet to be seen whether his report will be accepted by the leaders of his side, and an attempt made to carry out the bold, perhaps somewhat hazardous, strategy which he recommends.

  • An attempt made on his life on December 24, which many Frenchmen absurdly believed to have been abetted by the English government, gave him the opportunity of crushing his domestic foes.

  • An attempt made at the Berlin meeting of A.

  • But an attempt made at a general synod at Dort to unite all the Reformed national churches under one confession failed.

  • An attempt made a few days before to cut the Delagoa Bay railway failed, not, however, through the fault of Hunter-Weston, who led the enterprise.

  • An attempt made by Clements to recover the Nek failed.

  • Here an attempt made by a few companies of Highlanders to outflank the Boer line on the crest by working round the shoulder of Wagon Point, had failed, as the men were exposed to an irresistible fire as they turned the corner.

  • Similar results had attended every previous attempt made by the enemy to pass or to reconnoiter when we had sufficient light to fire with accuracy and effect.

  • The line of railroad on the north and east had been cut by the enemy, and an attempt made on the south.

  • A story has been found which illustrates an attempt made by the bird Zu to break loose from the control of the sun.

  • There are some indications of an attempt made by them to make Nippur the capital of their empire.

  • There is no attempt made to impart a scholastic interpretation to it.

  • An attempt made by several United States officers to blow up the British ship Plantagenet, in Lynnhaven bay, with a torpedo.

  • An attempt made to assassinate Edward I of England in his tent at Acre, by a messenger of the emir of Joppa.

  • An attempt made to assassinate the emperor of Austria by a Hungarian named Lebenyi, who was executed.

  • Mr. Pitcairn and myself were chatting together about the situation, when my attention was called to an attempt made by the company that formed the east side of the square to press the crowd back.

  • He had notified you that there would be an attempt made?

  • There was an attempt made after I left to run trains out, but of course I did not see that.

  • They successfully foiled an attempt made by the Germans to cut off their retreat, and fell back on the corps of MacMahon, which lay about ten miles to the south of Weissenburg.

  • These petty outbreaks and an attempt made by Laharpe to render the Vaud independent of Berne[6] were suppressed, A.

  • An attempt made by any one among the princes to place himself at the head of the whole of Germany would have been frustrated by the rest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attempt made" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above referred; attempt has been made; attempt made; attempt should; attempt was; attempts were; blue flower; crushing defeat; drink from; finding the; hast thou; having long; independent command; light green; lose the; might haue; open the; overwhelming majority; personal life; seed should; sewing machines; single man; stand twenty; telegram from; under pretence; you the