Use of the word attempts in a sentence example

attempts

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Gabriel replaced the hourglass after several unsuccessful attempts to shake it. [Please select]

I was wrong to abandon my attempts so soon. [Please select]

This theory attempts to account for instinct entirely in terms of nervous action. [Please select]

They made several attempts to get in, and I asked them what they wanted. [Please select]

After several attempts they succeeded in getting about twenty nuts. [Please select]

The law does not succeed in what it attempts and professes to do. [Please select]

Sir Hugh Willoughby attempts the North-East Passage past North Cape, and sights Novaya Zemlya. [Please select]

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