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
For, of course, if one didn't do one's best at a visit from the minister, what possible combination of circumstances could call it forth?
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
“Nor had I, sir, I can tell you; but I’ve always held that there’s nothing like trying to do one’s best, in however bad a way one may seem to be,” continued Needham.
From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald
