Once, almost every field-goal attempt seemed to be an adventure.

So long ago, the brief attempt at marriage seemed more like a half remembered bad dream than a memory.

No attempt seemed to have been made to remove the ruins.

Such attempts to maintain group identity seem to be working.

But now that the jet was silent an attempt at communication seemed in order.

An attempt at presenting it was made in the 1940's and seems to have had little impact.

The more he thought about it, the less likely another direct attempt at the boy's life seemed.

Edmund's early attempts at opposition seem to have come to nothing.

Each attempt to pull itself out seems to draw only more attention to how far it has sunk.

Any attempts to play these countries off against each other would seem to me to be very dangerous, including and even in particular for Europe!