How to Use effort in a Sentence
effort
noun- It wasn't easy, but it was worth the effort.
- The job will require a great deal of time and effort.
- Even though they didn't win, the team made a good effort.
- He put a lot of effort into finishing the project on time.
- Our success is due to the combined efforts of many people.
- We need to expend more effort.
- He lost the campaign despite the best efforts of his supporters.
- Her efforts were rewarded with a new contract.
- Her early efforts at writing a novel were awkward.
- Despite my best efforts, I never found out who she was.
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Now that the effort has gained traction, more may be on the way.
— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024 -
The effort was canceled in 1983, and the method deemed not viable.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024 -
In that time, the effort has raised more than $36 million.
— Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023 -
The state does not study whether these efforts are working.
— Kavitha Cardoza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024 -
And thanks to the dual efforts of Suzuki and the Armoury, the world just received one more.
— Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Over the years, efforts spread to increase data science in schools.
— Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024 -
But those efforts now seem likely to be too little, too late.
— Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024 -
Earlier, Ludmila had put the ball in the back of the net, but the effort was quickly ruled out for offside.
— George Ramsay, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024 -
Spanning a few days, the story follows the unexpected death of the Pope and the efforts to select a new one.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 July 2024 -
That's been expensive, and exhausting, and now the city has scaled its efforts back.
— Kevin J. Beaty, NPR, 8 May 2024 -
That doesn't mean people aren't still calling him out (despite his best efforts to stand on his own).
— Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024 -
The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts.
— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024 -
So often, the first piece of music for a show is the most challenging because of that effort to find the palette and sound, and so that was the challenge there.
— Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2023 -
And Trotter isn’t the only one questioning the NFL’s efforts in this regard.
— Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023 -
Turn over the chore of vacuuming and mopping to this robot two-in-one cleaner and save time and effort.
— Gabriela Izquierdo, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Thanks in part to the efforts of Koch and Chalmers, more researchers than ever are trying to solve the conundrum of consciousness.
— John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023 -
That ploy was part of a larger effort to get his caucus in line at a critical juncture.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023 -
That's on top of efforts by the former president and his allies to cast Biden as too old and unfit for office.
— Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 24 June 2024 -
Our enemies are delighted that their years-long efforts to worsen our divisions have worked so well.
— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024 -
The group doesn’t debut a new studio effort this time around; instead, two of their classics find their way back to the weekly tallies, as followers of the rockers will seemingly never tire of owning their best work—sometimes in several forms.
— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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