endeavoring
Example Sentences
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“I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions and worry terribly I might end up being too clear,” he joked in 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In “The Grand Finale,” the couple are married and Mr. Molesley is endeavoring to boost his film career, although he hasn’t left his time at Downtown Abbey in the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
The police released them for the evening but kept their passports, which they were endeavoring to confirm with Swiss authorities.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
But in endeavoring to couch their relationship in such platonic romantic terms, which seems to exist at the heart of his agenda, Leslie loses his grasp on the painful reality of the duo’s intimacy.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
Privately, he explained to McMillan that “we considered the existence of a relativistic limit so important that we thought we should communicate it to cyclotronists as quickly as possible, without endeavoring to give accurate figures.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
