tried

How To Use tried In A Sentence

• 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.
• She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
• A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler.
• After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
• Anybody who has tried to follow a rigorous diet will know how easy it is to lapse back into bad habits. Times, Sunday Times
• Looking radiantly healthy - in contrast to her wan mien of recent months - she lucidly defended herself the interviewers tried to extract an apology from her.
• So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
• And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
• He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in. Times, Sunday Times