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  • 1. attempted
  • Rhymes with Attempted
  • Attempted in a sentence
  • Quotes about Attempted
Table of Contents
  • 1. attempted
  • Rhymes with Attempted
  • Attempted in a sentence
  • Quotes about Attempted
Antonyms

1. attempted

adjective. ['əˈtɛmptəd'] tried unsuccessfully.

Antonyms

  • fortunate

Rhymes with Attempted

  • abbreviated
  • abdicated
  • abutted
  • accommodated
  • accosted
  • acquitted
  • acted
  • activated
  • adapted
  • addicted
  • adjusted
  • admitted
  • adopted
  • advocated
  • affiliated
  • afflicted
  • aggravated
  • aggregated
  • agitated
  • alienated

Sentences with attempted


1. Verb, past participle
You might find pictures in your gallery you never knew someone had attempted to send to you.

2. Verb, past tense
Washington first attempted to negotiate, sending representatives to negotiate with the rebel leaders.

Quotes about attempted


1. I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
- Alfred Russel Wallace

2. A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
- Lysander Spooner

3. Both of the items were used in an attempted murder, but hers was a dagger, and mine was a baby’s rubber bottle nipple. That was the last time I took a stab at love.
- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

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