Some hasty attempt had been made to clean up, but there are prints--plenty of them.

With a wave of his hand, he overrode her hasty attempt to interject an accidental in place of that ill-chosen mysterious.

A hasty and crude attempt had been made to obliterate the path's existence, or perhaps just slow whatever was coming along it.

In her hasty attempt to conceal Dr. Hoa, her hat had come off.

He was especially concerned that hasty attempts to modernize Egypt often resulted in the negative effect of sacrificing or forgetting Islamic principles.

Everywhere there was the same chaos, a general disorder which someone had made a hasty attempt to disguise.

So did Manu Ginóbili, who launched hasty 3-point attempts and turned the ball over too often.

Then, after time for a hasty attempt at battening down for Turnover, the Drive cut.

And the skater's remarks seemed like a hasty attempt to halt a steamroller of bad publicity.

It may be he made a hasty attempt to spell "useless" when his fate was close upon him.