attempted

IPA: ʌtˈɛmptʌd

Examples of "attempted" in Sentences

He rejected what he called an attempted "coup" of freedom and democracy.
They also argue Davis acted in self-defense during what they describe as an attempted robbery.
Davis said he was defending himself against what he described as an attempted armed robbery as the men approached him on a motorcycle.
Raymond Davis, 36, shot dead two Pakistanis in the eastern Punjab city on January 27 following what he described as an attempted armed robbery.
Or the spirit or hope or ambition of the cosmos, which we call attempted positivism: not to find out the new; not to add to what is called knowledge, but to systematize.
Davis, a former Special Forces soldier who left the military in 2003, shot the men in what he described as an attempted armed robbery in the eastern city of Lahore as they approached him on a motorcycle.