do one's best

Example Sentences

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Johnny’s tentative dip into family life artfully captures the tedium, terror and confounding ecstasy of parenthood, but it more eloquently conveys the pain and discovery involved in simply trying to do one’s best.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

Striving to do one’s best is laudable and certainly a part of military training and leadership, but there is a lot more to military leadership than doing one’s best.

From MSNBC • Dec. 12, 2015

But in Judaism, there are two conditions for repentance: one must go in genuine contrition to the person sinned against, and one must do one's best to compensate for the wrong done.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You see, monsieur, one must do one’s best whatever one undertakes,” said Alice to me; “I have tried every profession, and now I am a good femme de ménage, and I am ‘bien contente.’

From The Real Latin Quarter by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

Getting to the top via the big opera house is the work of a lifetime, and the golden tones are gone before one really has an opportunity to do one's best work.

From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by Cooke, James Francis