The story goes on as Stephen makes one desperate attempt to get into his mother's house after another.

Could she see through his desperate attempt to buy more time?

That album was a desperate attempt to keep their record deal.

There could be no better time for his desperate attempt to escape than right now.

It looked like a desperate attempt to reduce the game to a lower level.

Sam asked in a desperate attempt to get him to say something else.

She made a desperate attempt to cut his legs out from under him.

The whole team was now forced into a desperate attempt to save him.

As she moved into the room, everyone made a desperate attempt to take their eyes off her.

A last, desperate attempt to hold onto something I never truly had.