in-a-sentence.com, use try in a sentence

Use try in a sentence

Sentences starting with try

Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Try to amuse yourself while I am gone. [10]
Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
Try and forget you have been kicked. [5]
Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
Try as she would, she could not find it in her heart at such a time to destroy his hope,--or her own. [9]
Try as I would, I could not remember. [9]
Try as I would, I could not bring myself to like them, and I feared only too truly that they did not like me. [11]
Try as she would to stifle her anxiety, it obtruded itself, and she could eat no breakfast. [11]
Try as she would to keep it trim after the manner of her people, it still waved loosely on her forehead and over her ears. [11]

Sentences ending with try

I don't know where we shall go now; Boston isn't like home any more; and we couldn't live on two thousand there; I should be ashamed to try. [8]
It is wonderful what we can find the time to do, if we only try. [9]
But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. [5]
Let another witness try. [5]
I'll make another try. [11]
But you can try, and of course it will be best to try. [5]
But I'll promise to try. [9]
But do you think that I could have lived my life out, feeling that I might have saved Jim, and didn't try? [11]
Mention any good thing she had not done; I should like to see you try! [6]
His trouble was that he could not escape from himself; and, for the most part, he justified himself in refusing to try. [8]

Short sentences using try

I wish they'd try that. [5]
Yes, he would try it. [11]
Only say you'll try him. [12]
Farewell--to-morrow we will try again. [10]
I will try to wait. [5]
Should he try to sleep? [5]
Do you try to explain? [5]
I would try the law. [9]
Try to remember that. [5]
Would you try that one? [5]

Sentences containing try two or more times

I know you will try to injure Mr. Ingolby; and I know that you will try to injure me; but you will not succeed. [11]
I shall try to make the town better for it, and the state, and I shall try to elevate my neighbors. [9]
I will try to be civil; and you try it, too, for a novelty. [5]
Do try, Miss Nell, do try. [12]
Try to control it, my lad; take an old man's advice and try to control it. [9]
As concerns his humor, I will not try to say anything, yet I would try, if I had the words that might approximately reach up to its high place. [5]
I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs, --give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen. [6]
Why try to call up the traditions of vanished Egyptian grandeur; why try to fancy Egypt following dead Rameses to his tomb in the Pyramid, or the long multitude of Israel departing over the desert yonder? [5]
But I'll have a try, a good big try. [11]

More example sentences with the word try in them

You should try your fortune in London, where you shall be under my protection, sir. [9]
You are still young, Katharina; try to grow better. [10]
I asked the young gentleman to do me the kindness to go to jail as soon as he conveniently could, so that I might try to get in there and visit him, and see what college captivity was like. [5]
The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
Well, then, are you willing to try it out, on the level? [9]
Then why do you try to get to Heaven? [5]
But why don't you try to beg them? [5]
I do want you to try, Basil. [8]
I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to try to see what makes me believe it. [6]
I understand why you sent it, and you must try to understand why it cannot be kept. [4]
I will give you proofs, and then if my friend here still insists, I will try to accommodate him. [5]
I don't believe you mean to try to astonish us when you come back to spend your summers here. [6]
They know how you love animals, and so they try to do you honor and show their love for you by naming all those creatures after you; insomuch that if a body should step out and call "Joan of Arc--come! [5]
If I were you I would try it awhile. [7]
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied! [7]
I believe, though, you are one of the Trustees and a Member of the Examining Committee; so that, if you should happen to visit the school, I shall try to be civil to you. [6]
If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to try just now. [7]
For her sake you are bold enough to try now and then to quell the stormy sea of my passions. [10]
Stephen must needs yield to his mother's persuasions and try them on--they were more than a passable fit. [9]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
And if she wrote them, they might try to stop the marriage, or at least to delay it for some years. [9]
Meanwhile, I have written my brother Juste to be magnanimous, and to try for thy freedom. [11]
Bowers said he wouldn't serve on anybody's staff; and if anybody thought he could make him, let him try it. [5]
She said she would try to hope again, she would get up and follow wherever he might lead if only he would not talk like that any more. [5]
The man who would try to heal every suffering brute was accustomed to see those whom he loved best grieve on his account. [10]
Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. [6]
By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
Then, penniless, he would have to face Mona again; and what would come of that he could not see, would not try to see. [11]
Try to be worthy--of your home. [11]
It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
Death in the world, but I'll try it again! [11]
She knows the world well enough to know just how much polish they can take on, and she don't try to put on a bit more. [8]
But happily the world does not believe this, and indeed would be very unhappy if it could not try and prove all the possibilities of human nature, to suffer as well as to enjoy. [4]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
But if you won't sell at any price, all right; we must try to worry along without the light of your countenance on, the posters, but we got to have it for the banquet. [8]
It was a woman, and this other woman, this Mrs. Falchion knows, and she would try to ruin you, or"--here she seemed to be moved suddenly by a new thought--"or have you love her. [11]
I shall return with you to Leyden and from thence try to reach Delft; meantime I'll keep watch and give you warning, if necessary. [10]
We'll camp right with them, en' try to hold them. [13]
Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
They would do with it just as they would with one of your silver-mines out there--they would try to make all the world believe it was "wildcat. [5]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]
Go whither you will, stay away even if I send for you; but"--and here his brow clouded again--"why should I try to be merciful to her from whom I looked for sympathy and kindliness, when she flees from me like the rest? [10]
Then, happen what will, for the rest of our lives I will try to atone for the wrong I did you. [11]
There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
I declare I will not endure it any longer, and if you try to keep me shut up, I will run away from this temple, for outside it is all bright and pleasant, and here it is dingy and horrid! [10]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent. [6]
Still, Joe Twichell will doubtless go with me (forgot that,) he is going to try hard to. [5]
But the governor will be unwise to try and impose it. [11]
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. [6]
I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
Sirona is the wife of another, and even in sport no man should try to win his neighbor's wife. [10]
I don't see why you want to keep back things that way, and try to injure a person that's never done you any harm. [5]
May I ask why you do not try the experiment yourself? [6]
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. [11]
Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
Children of twenty-five, who have seven years experience, try to tell me what is a good cigar and what isn't. [5]
It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. [5]
It seemed worth while to try how far the principle of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. [1]
Try and think where she can be. [10]
I don't know where I'm going, but I must go; to try to keep still would be torture. [5]
All I did when we played together was to try to win your applause. [9]
You remember that when the weather was the least cold, he would try to come into the house. [5]
I'll tell you what we'll do, Count Luigi: I'll make a try at your past, and if I have any success there--no, on the whole, I'll let the future alone; that's really the affair of an expert. [5]
I don't know what it is to be unhappy or uneasy; and I am not going to try to learn how, at this late day. [5]
The news of what had happened had found its way to her solitary apartments, and, notwithstanding the hour, she had risen in order to try and discover the truth and warn her son against pronouncing a too hasty decision. [10]
But Macnamara's wits were not wool-gathering, and when Slatin said to him, "If I escape, I will try to arrange yours," Macnamara replied, with a respectful but placid stolidity: "Right, sir. [11]
Suppose the man were evil, then the Church should try to snatch him like a brand from the burning. [11]
You might as well try to stand in with a combination of gang-saws, or to make friends with the Department of the Interior. [4]
You might as well try to jump upon your own shadow as to hit the little man's intellectual features. [6]
You might as well try to heat the dome of St. Peter's with a lucifer-match. [4]
One might as well try to dramatize any other hymn. [5]
One might as well reason with a bee as to the form of his cell, or with an oriole as to the construction of his swinging nest, as try to stir these creatures from their own way of doing their own work. [6]
Whether it is well or ill done, I don't know; D. V., I will now try and wait the issue quietly. [14]
One had as well meddle with a porkpen, which hath thorns all over him, as try to deal with William when his eyes be rolling in that mad way. [6]
But if so, we will try again. [9]
The next morning we started back to the old camp, but while out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try to land. [5]
Every hour that we progressed seemed to justify the sagacity and boldness of Tom's plan, nor did it appear to have entered a painted skull that a white man would have the hardihood to try the trail this year. [9]
But I think we had better try to study her, and coax her along, and not fob her off as a very inferior person, or we shall have our hands full in earnest. [11]
If I find we can go, I'll try to get a stage box and then you and Mrs. Howells must come to Parker's and go with us to the crucifixion. [5]
Try the rough water as well as the smooth. [6]
I shall keep watch, and try to do my duty. [7]
It would be wasted time to try to argue her out of her delusion, it couldn't be done; I must just humor it. [5]
This "very likely" was torture to her, and she was determined to try, at any rate, to settle the doubt. [10]
Its natural course was to try for admission into some one of the popular magazines: into "The Sifter," the most fastidious of them all; if that declined it, into "The Second Best;" and if that returned it, into "The Omnivorous. [6]
Among the latter was the famous leech Erasistratus, who shared Archias's cushions, and had been solicited by the latter to try to restore his blind nephew's sight. [10]
But to try was my duty, and I tried with all my might; almost, for Alixe's sake, with all my heart. [11]
And to-night I was going to try once more--I felt it in the opera. [11]
And now it was destructively funny to see them sniff suspiciously at a pail of water, and then put in their noses and try to take a bite out of the fluid, as if it were a solid. [5]
Once more I was called: "Mortimer, I so hate to disturb you, but the room is still too cold for me to try to apply this stuff. [5]
Well, my prayer was answered; she did try to bribe me; and I made the best of a bad bargain and let her. [5]
She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. [5]
Another lady, who was a friend of hers, and a strong believer in Perkinism, was very anxious to try the effects of tractoration upon this unfortunate blemish. [6]
I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead--I'd got to throw up my hand. [5]
The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it. [5]
If a man wants to be famous, he had much better try the advertising doctor than the terrible editor, whose waste-basket is a maw which is as insatiable as the temporary stomach of Jack the Giant-killer. [6]
Pray try to walk like this. [5]
Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe. [5]
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word try in a sentence? How do you use try in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word try? It contains example sentences with the word try, a sentence example for try, and try in sample sentence.