"try" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For some time we tried ineffectually to get a message across.
- Greebo spat on his hand and tried ineffectually to groom his hair.
- He could hear policemen now beginning to work the edges of the crowd, trying ineffectually to clear the avenue.
- Political leaders ineffectually try to navigate between the public's sense of guilt and anger about these foreigners.
- Despite this obvious fact, he tried ineffectually to fit the bulky chair through the narrow opening in the picket fence.
- "You're hurting me," Nikol whispered, trying ineffectually to pull away.
- She lay in the hospital bed with a nurse trying ineffectually to comfort her, as Kelly clutched a teddy bear.
- I cried, ineffectually trying to push his hand away.
- He could feel his own hand at his throat, ineffectually trying to push her head away.
- She panted as she tried ineffectually to kick out.
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