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Example sentences for: trying

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Like Nixon, Kissinger has been trying to escape a black mark on his career (Vietnam rather than Watergate).
Alas, you are mistaken about men and women not trying to use Viagra to achieve a little extra oomph.
Instead of trying to tame inner-city housing projects with different kinds of architecture, lower density, and income mixing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development should redefine its purpose: to help its tenants escape the ghetto.
Even allowing for the fact that companies trying to resist hostile takeovers will say and do almost anything to make their would-be acquirers look bad, the German reaction to the Vodafone offer has been striking for its vehemence and the nakedness of its nationalism.
In the interim, thousands of lightly armed troops from NATO countries stumbled around Bosnia in their U.N. blue helmets, trying to feed victims and stay out of harm's way.