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Example sentences for: tried

How can you use “tried” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Jonah Goldberg tried right here in Slate.
First I tried to get it to load directly from the CD that came with the book.
The Star labels his lines as "dumb and dumber" in an account of how he tried to pick up a "Los Angeles lovely" with an offer to fly her to Chicago and give her tickets to his show.
According to legend, a scholar tried to write a poem worthy of the cave’s beauty, but before he could find adequate words he had turned to stone.
Brown has tried to remake The New Yorker as an upscale newsweekly, but its 800,000 paying readers can't match the 4 million that Time offers its advertisers.