—Did you have a chat with Tom?—No, I was trying to ________ an opportunity to do so, but I couldn't.
I asked the tailor to make a small _____ to my trousers because they were too long.
It was necessary to _____ the factory building as the company was doing more and more business.
We can't _____ one to change the habits of a lifetime in a short time.
American women were _____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.
There are three basic ways of _____ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.