I don't need to hear your feeble attempts at association.
The dwarf had no idea how to use it beyond this feeble attempt.
He makes a feeble attempt to stop her then relents.
He leaned against the cell wall and made a feeble attempt to smile.
With his assistance she even made a feeble attempt to walk.
She hugged the young one close in a last feeble attempt to protect it.
"I'm going to consider that a feeble attempt at humor."
At the moment, she could only keep a hand on his shoulder in a feeble attempt to reassure him.
"It was a feeble attempt," he said of the authority's offer.
The feeble attempt at humor did not go down well.
Provoked attacks are however more common, usually the result of botched attempts at capturing them.
In the days leading up to the murder, there were two botched attempts to set his car on fire with him in it.
She exposed her wrists, which bear the scars of the botched attempt.
There were rumours of a botched attempt on his life.
Already we have made two botched attempts on Bond's life.
A third was wounded by a botched attempt that killed his driver.
The game ended on a botched field-goal attempt by the Ravens.
A botched attempt to create a diversion led to an explosion and a massive fire.
Suppose the car crash was a botched attempt to kill them.
After a botched attempt at being her secret admirer they agree to date and over time, fall in love.
Fact: Bob had damaged the navigation-lure in a crude attempt to change course.
It's obviously a crude attempt at convincing us not to attack.
But in a crude attempt at social responsibility, the networks chose to turn television into a gallery of role models.
I agree, although there have been crude but effective attempts.
I did a preliminary survey, using my flashlight to check for any crude attempts at security.
This was a crude attempt by the military to disguise the basic injustice of the system.
He said there had been crude attempts to make the account look short, but that the money was all there.
They'd just survived a crude attempt by amateurs at a paid "hit."
Sadly, we need not go far to find similar cases, since crude attempts at assimilation are a real and current problem in Europe, too.
In her case, there'd been no crude attempt to fake a suicide.
