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Example sentences for "tremendous effort"

  • Jimbo brought back his mind with a tremendous effort, and said, "I don't like the winter.

  • He felt himself being pulled back into the room, and he combined all his forces into one tremendous effort to rush forward.

  • With a tremendous effort he sprang from the bed.

  • Then, just opposite to one of the Vales' in the pentacles, it seemed to pause, as though preliminary to a tremendous effort.

  • And then, with a tremendous effort, I forced myself to enter.

  • He could hardly repress a cry that rose to his lips, and a great lump rose in his throat that almost choked him; but with a tremendous effort he gulped it down, and brushed away the tears that almost blinded him.

  • Joe coughed two or three times, then making a tremendous effort, he said, "You all know me, mates?

  • At five, then, with a tremendous effort at concentration he decided that he must put more variety into his canvassing.

  • With a tremendous effort, now crawling rather than walking--for her knees were as water--the girl dragged herself up the path almost to her doorway.

  • With a tremendous effort, Stern fixed his fevered eyes upon the lights.

  • With a tremendous effort, gasping and shaken, weak, unnerved and wounded, he managed to raise himself upon one elbow and to peer about him with wild eyes.

  • The old amorist observed it, and made a tremendous effort to overcome his most inopportune drowsiness.

  • With a tremendous effort he caught hold of the hand-rail and sprang upon the footboard, where, with extraordinary skill, he contrived to remain.

  • Lady Beltham by a tremendous effort of will had risen to her feet, and was standing by the end of the sofa.

  • It cost Marie a tremendous effort to say those words calmly.

  • It required a tremendous effort to get out that name "Elbraham," but he forced it from his lips at last.

  • With a tremendous effort he tried to bring his right foot up to his left, and succeeded partly.

  • He caught the meaning here and there, and straightway would lose himself in a tremendous effort to shape out some intelligible theory of events.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    burst into; but without; different language; differing only; exceedingly obliged; had any; iron filings; leaning against; little doubt; moment longer; passed them; pocket book; printed book; seven species; should observe; then found; there will; tremendous amount; tremendous effort; tremendous fire; tremendous pace; tremendous rate; western yellow; white cloth; will endeavor; with such