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UK
/tɹˈaɪ/
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[ US /ˈtɹaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹaɪ/ ]
VERB
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examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
The case will be tried in California
The jury had heard all the evidence -
make an effort or attempt
The police attempted to stop the thief
She always seeks to do good in the world
He sought to improve himself
He tried to shake off his fears
The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps -
give pain or trouble to
I've been sorely tried by these students -
put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
Try on this sweater to see how it looks -
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
Test this recipe
This approach has been tried with good results -
melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
render fat in a casserole
try the yak butter -
take a sample of
Sample the regional dishes
Try these new crackers -
put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
The judge tried both father and son in separate trials
The football star was tried for the murder of his wife -
test the limits of
You are trying my patience!
NOUN
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earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
made an effort to cover all the reading material
she gave it a good try
wished him luck in his endeavor
How To Use try In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
- Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
- You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
- Try feeling a little "schlubby" popping around the corner for a newspaper. Wine Shopping in San Francisco, Italian Style
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
- I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
