Sentence examples of "tentent" in French with translation "attempt"

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Translations: all92 try77 attempt9 tempt6
Ils tentèrent de s'enfuir. They attempted to escape.
Il est trop peureux pour le tenter. He is too much of a coward to attempt it.
Ils ont tenté d'assassiner le président. They attempted to assassinate the president.
Ce poète tenta de se suicider dans leur bibliothèque. That poet attempted suicide in their library.
Il a tenté de traverser la rivière à la nage. He attempted to swim across the river.
On ne peut pas accomplir l'impossible sans tenter l'absurde. You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
Aucun homme extrêmement gros n'a jamais tenté une telle chose. No extremely fat man has ever attempted such a thing.
Mary tentait de pousser les mots vers l'autre extrémité de la phrase pour faire tomber Tom. Mary was attempting to push the words toward the other end of the sentence in order to dump Tom.
À chaque fois que je tente d'apprendre par moi-même le C++, je me retrouve coincé avec les pointeurs. Every time I attempt to teach myself C++, I get stuck on pointers.
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