Usually there is a halfhearted effort to place a couple of calls.

The President offered a halfhearted effort at a smile.

Carson's campaign was disorganized and he seemed to make only a halfhearted effort to win over voters.

Manny sighed in a last halfhearted effort.

The scene of the morning recurred to my mind, and my halfhearted effort to prevent him from accompanying us.

I make a halfhearted effort to push my hair out of my eyes and realize it's matted into clumps.

When the next compy came up and bit his ankle, he made only a halfhearted effort to kick it away.

Every now and then Lula and I make a halfhearted effort to track him down, but we've never had any success.

A halfhearted effort was made to harness her up to "Elizabeth," but she flatly declined to answer to the appellation.

They made halfhearted efforts to get me to stay, but I waved them off.

A couple of policemen made halfhearted efforts to get between the Freedom Party men and the Negroes.

Despite his halfhearted efforts to make up and move on, it was not Nick who had offered me ten thousand dollars to stay the week.