We found over 1000 examples of how to use trying in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. | |
| 2. | In court facing charges of obscenity, the American actress Mae West was asked by the judge if she was trying to show disrespect to the court, whereupon she answered, "No, your honor, I'm trying not to show it". | |
| 3. | Ah! you're trying to escape, vile creature! you're trying to escape like a thief, in the middle of the night, eh? | |
| 4. | "Hey, are you trying to trick me?" "No, I'm trying to go for a walk. I don't even know who you are." | |
| 5. | Layla isn't trying to be sexy. She's just trying to be cute. | |
| 6. | Kleiman said he was staying at a friend’s house outside Milan, “trying to read some of the initial class notes that have been posted for my classes for the first week, trying to advance my thesis, and watching movies/playing video games.” | |
| 7. | Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake. | |
| 8. | I'm still trying to figure out what Tom was trying to tell me. | |
| 9. | Tom wasn't trying to impress you. He was trying to impress Mary. | |
| 10. | Trying to read a text in Toki Pona is like trying to tell what an inkblot looks like on a Rorschach test. | |
| 11. | "Yanni is a trans woman." "No, you mean he's a trans man." "No, she's a trans woman." "But Yanni is a man trying to become a woman, isn't he?" "Yes and that's what they call a trans woman." "Still Yanni is a man who's trying to become a woman. Yanni was born a male, he has male DNA and scientifically, he's still a man." | |
| 12. | I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself. | |
| 13. | I was trying to kill time. | |
| 14. | When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true. | |
| 15. | Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her. | |
| 16. | I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me. | |
| 17. | I don't have the strength to keep trying. | |
| 18. | If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. | |
| 19. | We are sorry, the person you are trying to contact is not available. | |
| 20. | Are you trying to fish in troubled waters? | |
| 21. | You are very trying to me sometimes. | |
| 22. | It is no use your trying to persuade him. | |
| 23. | It is no use your trying to deny it. | |
| 24. | Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow doorway are in checkmate. | |
| 25. | It is no use trying to separate the sheep from the goats while in a state of madness. |