trying

Example Sentences

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Trying to make this house work by getting tenants in, buying your brother out and fixing it up may — or may not — be more money than it’s worth.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026

"Trying to take the positives out of a negative situation."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“I’m reaching out to my people at FBI and DOJ. Trying to get him out,” he texted the group.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

Trying to weave together an impossible number of threads means some moments stick out sloppily, like a character’s reveal of a magically healed wound we never knew they had.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson