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Trying
"Trying" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.
I was trying to kill time.
When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.
Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.
I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
I don't have the strength to keep trying.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
We are sorry, the person you are trying to contact is not available.
Are you trying to fish in troubled waters?
You are very trying to me sometimes.
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"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah
In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.
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