Words similar to trying

Example sentences for: trying

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

They are victims of domestic violence, single moms trying to navigate the regulatory maze that strangles their efforts to move from dependency to self-sufficiency, foster children who are maltreated, migrant and seasonal farm workers who are not paid or are forced to work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
“For an autistic individual who is trying to piece together too much information from a face, maybe it's like looking at the sun,” he says.
The test of an innovation in any kind of writing, but particularly in nonfiction writing, is what contribution the innovation makes to our understanding of the subject the author is trying to illuminate.
There would be little point in trying to identify a single number as an accurate representation of something this complex.
We beat ourselves up trying to work our way north; the ship was rolling 30 plus degrees.