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
One can only do one's best at the moment," he said to me once, à propos of some action of the Irish government which had turned out badly--"if it doesn't succeed, better luck next time!
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
At any rate, one could but do one's best, and I hoped that a higher power than all that which was around would not overlook me or any other fellows on that day.
From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield
