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
The most one can do is to guard the young against pernicious influences, and do one's best to recommend one's own disinterested enthusiasms.
From At Large by Benson, Arthur Christopher
All that one can expect is, to do one's best, and to take with equanimity the fortune of war.
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
