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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.
Currie's lawyer, Lawrence Weschler, also said it was false that Clinton had tried to influence Currie.
The paper also reports that at times, the first lady appeared "dazed and distant," especially when a reporter standing directly in front of her twice tried to ask her a question.
The company tried to sell anti-submarine reconnaissance planes to the Dutch.
But almost as soon as he had experienced this Cinderella-like reversal of fortune, Soutine developed second thoughts about his work up to that point and tried to destroy as much of it as he could get his hands on.