Example sentences for: trying

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

  • Among the "Frequently Asked Questions" FEMA posts on its Web site is the following: "I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.

  • This is a hard-working man, an engaged parent trying to do the best he can in a world where the odds are stacked up against him and others like him.

  • On a daily basis, Largent spends his time trying to attach anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and anti-NEA amendments to anything with an H.R. number.

  • Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.: "[Bush is] trying to create an impression somehow that he's different than the Republican Congress agenda.

  • A piece tells the incredible life story of Carlos Mavroleon, the Eton and Harvard educated son of a Greek tycoon who converted to Islam, joined the mujahideen, became a free-lance TV war correspondent, was arrested by the Pakistani police while trying to sneak into Osama Bin Laden's terrorist camps after the U.S. bombing, and died mysteriously of a heroin overdose days later.


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