We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn't manage.

This poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.

No matter how many failed attempts we made, we maintained a positive attitude and tried again and again until we succeeded.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea

1584 No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)

I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.

A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn't make it to the top.

Something attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose.

Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

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