"try" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He stayed for five years while fitfully trying to write a novel.
- Most of its 189 parishes are fitfully trying to come to terms with the seismic events of the past few months.
- Tse Rangji fitfully tries shoveling away the waves of sand that menace her home, half engulfing it like some artifact of a lost civilization.
- When she had it, she crawled in, fitfully tried to pack snow around the entrance, then curled up as tightly as she could and was instantly asleep.
- National Hockey League players may be locked out as they fitfully try to negotiate a new labor agreement.
- After trying fitfully to explain the red-button function, he finally conceded that he wasn't sure how it worked, and gave up.
- Kirk tried fitfully to stir, alarm bells going off in his head.
- After high school he tried fitfully to make a living as a sketch artist and a scenery painter.
- Most of the inmates were asleep or fitfully trying to sleep.
- American readers knew that Updike was performing a service for them, mapping the new terrain they were trying so fitfully to negotiate themselves.
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