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Example sentences for: tried

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He'd been head writer at NBC and dialogue director at Columbia Pictures, but when he tried to break into Tin Pan Alley, they kept telling him his stuff was too complex.
Unlike the literary world, where provocative books such as Ulysses or Lady Chatterley's Lover led to legal battles over obscenity issues, in the movies, no one tried to place fuck onto film until the country was ready for it.
Since we only tried 27 different architectures,there may have been more appropriate architectures for these datasets.
In his lifetime, many petty European princes tried to imitate Louis’s style with their own little Versailles, complete with court artists and sycophants.
In Afghanistan, the State Department tried to end the civil war that had continued since the Soviets' withdrawal.