trying
IPA: trˈaɪɪŋ
noun
- (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
adjective
- Difficult to endure; arduous.
- Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
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Examples of "trying" in Sentences
- He is trying to be a stoic.
- He is trying to be shipshape.
- Researchers are trying hard to protract human life.
- They seem trying to speak, trying to speak kindly.
- I'm not trying to delude the public, I'm trying to write truthfully.
- You are trying to liberalize and be objective and hide the hard facts.
- It's really hard when you're trying to troubleshoot the customers issue.
- The protagonist seemed to be trying to evade the bad guys during the film.
- You're not trying to write neutrally, but you're trying to write persuasively.
- Behold him sitting on the side of the bed, trying to dress himself -- _trying_ to do it.
- I'm trying to think of the most unacceptable kind of tattoo but this is basically like trying to choose who is the worst dictator in history.
- It ends up like that General in New Orleans, trying *trying* to get important information out about disaster preparedness, having to face reflexively antagonistic journalists and famously pronouncing, "You're stuck on stupid."
- And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so.
- See here, Nimbus, if you'll do this I will promise that you and your family never shall be separated, and I'll give you fifty dollars now and a hundred dollars when you come back, if you'll just keep those other fool-niggers from trying -- mind 'I say _trying_ -- to run away and so getting shot.
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