Word Finder - effort

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The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

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It took a lot of effort to find a decent-sized, fully-furnished apartment within walking distance of the office.   He made a conscious effort to not appear affected by the stories in the paper.

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An endeavour.

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Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.

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A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

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To make an effort.

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To strengthen, fortify or stimulate

I admire the effort and sacrifice you put into it.

Some people just put more effort into distinguishing right from wrong than others.

With a little effort she located a canteen.

It took too much effort to look up at the sun to measure time.

She made no effort to catch them, letting them fall at her feet.

With effort, she turned her head away.

With an effort, she managed to straddle the vehicle behind him.

I think Alex makes a concentrated effort to drive his father crazy.

In 1967 the effort was intensified.

It doesn't matter to me one way or another, but I wish you would at least make an effort at seeing his side of it.

He didn't want to go and he had made no effort to get along with his father.

With effort, she rolled him onto his back.

He made an effort to relax.

Her small effort was rewarded with a warm sweet smile.

For her sake, he made an effort to behave, but he truly loved the openings she gave him.

His words were controlled with effort, his body so tense, she thought he'd snap any second.

She needed to put more effort into taking advantage of life while she could.

The effort of healing him had given her a headache.

With effort, Deidre hauled herself up onto a branch, wrapped her legs around it in a careful balancing act then stretched upward for the next.

Another image flashed, and Deidre gasped, covering her face with her hands in an effort to block it.

Miss Keller's effort to reach out and meet other people on their own intellectual ground has kept her informed of daily affairs.

Fitzgerald made no effort to take the offered paper.

One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

Natasha sat easily and confidently on her black Arabchik and reined him in without effort with a firm hand.

Howie's body began a strange movement we knew to be his effort to move more rapidly.

He listened without saying a word as I revealed everything, including Julie's effort to collect the million dollars.

Saddened, she made an effort to stand on her own legs.

We five hirelings, as dissimilar as snowflakes, are tripping over one another in an effort to display mutual accommodation.

It took more effort than he thought to break the otherworldly connection binding them.

She tested it as she walked to see how much effort it would take to control.

She cut him off with effort.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

But he made an effort not to throw the child down and ran with her to the large house.

Was it honor that forced him to put aside this time and effort to her gain, or was it something else?

The process causes physical difficulty and effort.

In looking at them again, she could see the time and effort that would've been required to keep them cleaned and sharpened.

The effort made her dizzy.

Unwilling to appease the man she didn't like, she made no effort to match his pace.

The human had spent most of the evening pacing around the cell, trying to make some sense of everything, stopping only briefly to eat, in an effort to soak up all the alcohol.

She was sweating from the effort of walking out of the medical facility.

It is almost no effort for me to row around the lake, no matter how heavy the load may be.

I can't bear this waiting and I shall cry in a minute! and she turned away from the glass, making an effort not to cry.

There was only one way to find out... well, maybe two, but asking Sarah or Giddon was probably wasted effort.

As long as Quinn could place Howie in the past, we'd do everything in our power to support the effort.

She jogged after him with great effort as he strode through the maze.

Dinner was a quiet affair, cooked by the returning Fred O'Connor—hamburgers, a tad over-broiled, but the Deans appreciated the effort as they were busy with Bird Song's other chores.

Dean looked at her but made no effort to rise.

She rose with effort.

The city had struggled through the drabness of poverty and job­lessness in an effort to raise itself from the ashes of long-dead industries.

With the air cleared of all the secrets, and both of them making a concentrated effort to get along, even the children appeared to be happier.