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Example sentences for: trying

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When an organ seller is trying to decide whether the terrible dangers from kidney removal or the certain loss of sight from surrendering an eye is worth a sudden cash infusion, his effort to identify his best interest will be confused by how the question is framed, by difficulties sorting out the statistical risks, by the vision of all that money, and many other factors.
I'm not trying to start nothing.
The moral of the story, à la La Rochefoucauld: Trying to have it both ways usually gets you neither.
On Dateline , Phillips informed viewers that the first lady repeatedly "has denied ever trying marijuana."
But the hard style of the narrator, far from being an expression of passivity, is, in fact, a symptom of a man who is trying to avoid having things done to him--someone afraid to let go of himself, afraid to merge.