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Example sentences for: tries

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

The government now tries to handle the problem of joint management, informed by analysis of intelligence from all sources, in two ways.
In recent weeks the characters have become embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky affair, as Ken Starr tries to subpoena a manuscript the three e-mailers are desperate to keep unpublished.
So Morris tries to apply the premise to the astonishing turnaround of the 1980s.
Instead, it tries to document the varieties of English that are not found throughout the country—those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another, that are learned at home rather than at school, or that are part of our oral rather than our written culture.
In Claggart, the officer who tries to frame Billy for the crime of mutiny, we find a nautical version of Kenneth Starr.