tried

How To Use tried In A Sentence

• She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
• A few people were crying, and one girl was very sick and puking, but most people tried to stay calm.
• I tried that noise she so often used in her interrogatives and she chittered a bit.
• The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
• Anybody who has tried to follow a rigorous diet will know how easy it is to lapse back into bad habits. Times, Sunday Times
• A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler.
• He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
• After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
• I could see my homeboy was scared, but that little Maya tried to kick at the old man.
• Jayson drew his swallow and jumped off his stead as Virgo let out a bellow as he tried to scare off the attackers.