Thesaurus / trying

trying

How to use trying in a sentence

Compounding that is the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion that many of us feel after such a trying period.

It’s going to be an emotionally trying time as they shop for loved ones who cannot be in the same place with them.

Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.

Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.

It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.

Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN

Major Abbott and his brother officers, trying to keep their men loyal, stood fast and listened to the distant turmoil in the city.

These strange things that Alf has been trying to teach me during the long nights I have learned—I understand.

To fully understand what takes place when trying to study, let the pupil recall that there are three sources of knowledge.

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985