Similar words: attempt, tempt, contempt, tempting, temptation, caveat emptor, self-contempt, contemptible. Meaning: [ə'tempt] adj. tried unsuccessfully.
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151. His son, who lives in Brafferton Street, Hartlepool, is also accused of attempted murder.
152. Again and again I attempted to advance towards my father.
153. It is reasonable to expect that public attitudes and beliefs about attempted suicide will affect its incidence.
154. In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
155. He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
156. In 1972 his own principle aide, General Oufkir, who ruled the country in the king's name attempted a coup.
157. He attempted to explain apparent contradictions in testimony he gave under aggressive questioning by plaintiffs' lawyers several weeks ago.
158. The Government first attempted to exclude altogether supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of regulation 72.
159. David Bowsher, writing on paradoxical pain, opens with an anecdote about a consultant convicted of attempted murder.
160. Disney wanted to fill his studio with artists capable of a more fluid, more realistic animation than had ever been attempted.
161. Some countries have attempted to create a dual executive in the absence of a monarch.
162. Many studies have attempted to estimate the effect of advertising on sales, but few have established any relationship at all.
163. Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
164. The attempted coup took place in January.
165. The spy attempted to escape to a neighbouring country.
166. They attempted the assassination of the President.
167. They dropped when he attempted to press them to his rib.
168. This fascinating statistical exercise has been attempted many times since 1927.
169. The CEQ has attempted to clarify both the timing and scope issues.
170. The offender attempted to grease the palm of the judge.
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