endeavor

Crossing the border illegally, with the help of coyotes, or smugglers, is typically a very expensive endeavor.

We knew it would be an expensive endeavor, and we still chose to make the investment.

He stops after a second, looks around him and laughs, apparently realizing the absurdity of the endeavor.

Doing so can be a very profitable endeavor, in a time of low interest rates.

His largest endeavor is a small town called Poundbury that he has been developing since the 1990s.

This was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.

He did not find his new field of endeavor so profitable when he began to work among strangers.

Consequently they endeavor to please him, without considering what he asks or what they do.

To endeavor to cut through such an obstacle would undoubtedly have brought about a disaster.

The endeavor would not only be utterly unavailing, but would, with certainty, involve them in speedy and retrieveless ruin.