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.
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024