How to Use without success in a Sentence

without success

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• 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 News tried to contact the owner without success.
  — Imelda García, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
• His climbing partners called for help after trying to free him on their own without success.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
• The Coast Guard called off the search without success in early June.
  — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 24 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
• The Turtle made three attempts to blow up British ships without success.
  — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 26 Dec. 2024
• When the lieutenant decides to take a hostage, the whisky priest tries without success to volunteer to be the hostage.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
• Feldstein Soto tried without success to change the state’s public records law last year.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• Many screenwriters and directors had come and gone from the project, without success.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
• Lawmakers have introduced bills to repeal the sales tax on food for decades without success.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2023
• Read filed several appeals to state and federal courts to get the charges dropped, without success.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2025
• As days passed without success, the secretary of war grew more and more agitated.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• For centuries, astronomers had tried without success to determine how far away the closest stars were.
  — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
• Kay and a friend had been begging their parents to take them to Disney World without success.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• Both sides have been speaking to mediators about restoring the truce — so far without success.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
• 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
• He's also been applying for jobs with health benefits, without success so far.
  — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 21 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Staff called paramedics, who arrived and performed CPR, without success.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 24 Nov. 2025
• Documents go on to say that police tried to contact the woman that the victim had been living with, without success.
  — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
• An immigrant from Kazakhstan, who asked the judge not to dismiss his case without success, walked out of the courtroom.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
• 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
• The ellipsis of pinpricks where someone with needle and thread had tried, long ago, and without success, to mend one of the parchment’s many holes.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
• To help get over her malaise, Emond tried running and meditation, as does Adam in her film, but without success.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
• Officers toured the area looking for the vehicle without success.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 13 July 2023
• The administration has floated the idea of direct payments more than once this year, but without success.
  — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Dec. 2025
• Nike essentially made the same argument to the city, also without success.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• Like many women, Thompson tried the coil and contraceptive pill, without success.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2024