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64 examples of Unsuccessfully in a sentence

Or are we going to challenge nature continuously with heavy infrastructure, which we are already doing, unsuccessfully?
Between 2004 and 2008, I unsuccessfully tried to get into the Kenyan music industry.
And, you know, I was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with Dr. P to try to get out of doing these exercises, unsuccessfully, of course.
After unsuccessfully trying to sell their old jalopy, the lads look for help at the local bank.
Poorly acted and poorly directed, "Congo" unsuccessfully tries to recreate the feeling of "Jurassic Park".
Her parents are recently deceased and her grandmother is unsuccessfully trying to raise this young hellion.
Veterans unsuccessfully trying to lending dramatic gravitas include red lollipop-sucking Mia Farrow (as Anna Simmons) and quick-drawing, computer-hating Hal Holbrook (as Tom Walker).
A not so good action thriller because it unsuccessfully trends the same water as early Steven Seagal films because there is not a very good set piece.
The lead character, an nonreligious pregnant suicidal woman, ultimately gives her own life in a defiant but implausible attempt to unsuccessfully save this convicted killer.
He has a fine speaking and singing voice, a good mind, and a conscience that he unsuccessfully attempts to stifle.
Why does the narrator unsuccessfully mock the people he interviews (it is so obvious that he edited out the really informative parts of his interviews to achieve mockery).
Here in DIRTY WORK, most of the film is akin to these other two films--Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps and spend most of the film trying (quite unsuccessfully) to clean a crazy professor's chimney.
Mitch and Kyle immediately fall in love for Lucy, and Kyle unsuccessfully uses his money to impress Lucy; then he opens his heart and proposes Lucy.
He also seems puny to the grown-up bad boy Sedgewick Bell, the student he tried to unsuccessfully "mold" into a moral man--Bell invites him to his huge estate, where he also announces his candidacy for Senator--it makes prof Hundert's moralizing seem a bit silly.
However, the motives of the behavior and double-identity of Lt. Andy Anderson are not explained; Cornelia van Gorder, played by Agnes Moorehead, unsuccessfully tries to be an Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, resolving the murders, but her character is simply awful.
When the film begins, we see a man who tries unsuccessfully to escape.
In addition, there are several effects that unsuccessfully add drama.
The movie is shot as a thriller and the main characters are a Swedish police officer who suspects something big and ominous is going to happen in his country and tries unsuccessfully to prevent it, a mysterious but strangely charming British contract killer ready to pull the trigger, and a beautiful Swedish journalist whose choice of lover ends quite badly for her.
I had looked for it unsuccessfully based on a description a neighbor girl gave me when I was 23.
Most of the time, he's just trying, unsuccessfully, to be cool.
Plot - uncomplicated: cops trying unsuccessfully to determine multi-night killings on carnival-grounds-turned-drive-in.
He befriends the British passenger Althea Hall and unsuccessfully tries to convince Captain Malcolm Smith to change the course of the Titanic, telling that he has come from the future.
or so when tries unsuccessfully to switch over to comedy.
Weatherman(Cazimir Milostan)is a television personality whose wife is pulled from his convertible by the zombie bums as he looks on in horror, abandoning his vehicle, intruding upon Mitch's warehouse as well, put to good use by Caesar when attempting, unsuccessfully, to retrieve his vehicle.
The script is a bit of a mess as it tries, unsuccessfully in my opinion, to cross various genres like western, horror, comedy, fantasy & adventure with unsatisfactory results on all fronts.
When i was watching it at one point i though i was watching, wrong turn, then i star thinking about the Texas chainsaw massacre, then hills have eyes and finally i know what you did last summer, the movie it's basically a mix of all these other movies but unsuccessfully did what those other movies did, it's just so predictable, the scrip it's so weak and far beyond scary, instead of that it's so lame, with this thousands of clichés like "don't go in there" "what it's this place" "he's gonna kill us all" you basically know who's gonna die first and why called it "the butcher" there is no butcher in the film and there is not even a good slaughter, they should have call it "i know what the Texas hills wrong turned last summer" or something, honestly i don't know what a company spend money into making this crappy films.
In New York City, Lionel Q. Devereaux (Groucho Marx) and his fiancée Carmen Novarro (Carmen Miranda) are unsuccessfully trying to find a spot in the show business.
I've also tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain Julian Gloag's book, but it appears to be out of print.
The creators tried unsuccessfully to mask poorly written stories and cheaply drawn animation with hard core violence, meaningless adolescent fantasy sex, and illicit drug use.
Their anger, inflamed in March when he tried unsuccessfully to sack the Supreme Court’s independent-minded chief justice, rages on.
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