How to Use without success in a Sentence

without success

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  • The Coast Guard called off the search without success in early June.
    — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 24 July 2023
  • Uno tried, without success, to play defense and snatch the ball from Bridges.
    — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Mailman tried to get the local news to run a piece about Melanie, without success.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The Pac-12 has pursued a new media rights deal for the better part of a year without success.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • The city asked the courts in May to relieve it of its own obligation — so far without success.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • With the ball at the Dallas seven-yard line, Herbert tried to hit Joshua Palmer in the end zone without success.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Coast Guard had dropped nets into the water to try to stall the boat’s propeller, but without success.
    — Kyle Melnick, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Kyiv has long been pushing, without success, for the United States to send F-16 fighter jets to aid in the conflict.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Kay and a friend had been begging their parents to take them to Disney World without success.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Such meetings last year, backed by the U.S., ended without success.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But after two months of searching without success, the Ruizes decided to take their son home and do their best, on their own.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The other skiers called for help around 12:20 p.m., and performed chest compressions on Zhou for a half-hour without success.
    — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The couple had been trying to conceive without success when Akins met Willa in a Ugandan children's home.
    — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Around the country, people with family or friends in the affected area tried to reach them, without success.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • His climbing partners called for help after trying to free him on their own without success.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • As days passed without success, the secretary of war grew more and more agitated.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Lawmakers have introduced bills to repeal the sales tax on food for decades without success.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Journal Sentinel tried to reach the firefighter, who now lives in Florida, without success.
    — Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Houston is one of the biggest markets in the country, and though there are plenty of Cougars in it, interest without success can only be wrangled for so long.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
  • Rescue crews searched the water until dark without success, officials said, adding the search resumed Monday and the man's body was pulled from the water just after 10 a.m.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 7 June 2023
  • The administration has made more than 20 attempts to restart talks, without success.
    — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hecht shopped it around without success until scoring a meeting with McKay four years later.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The United Nations has called for Russia to enable civilians to flee Mariupol, so far without success.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Officers toured the area looking for the vehicle without success.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • Authorities approached the residence where the woman was believed to have been held and tried to get those inside to answer and come outside without success.
    — Fox News, 16 May 2022
  • More than a dozen judges had previously backed Gallardo in a letter, without success.
    — Karen Naundorf, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Clark has tried without success to block thoseproceedings.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Saddiq Bey, Dejounte Murray and others tried without success to slow Doncic's high-scoring pace.
    — Charles Odum, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Jones, who has been evading payment, then tried to claim personal bankruptcy but without success.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Agrawal has taken the civil service exam four times without success.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 27 May 2023

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