"try" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Helen and her mother, having witnessed his collapse, tried fruitlessly to revive him, but he died later that evening.
- For a quarter hour I sat on my bed, enjoying the quiet and trying fruitlessly to think of new ways to break the curse.
- The next day she tried fruitlessly to find a home for the baby through the classified advertisements.
- She is penniless and frustrated, having spent years fruitlessly trying to interest traditional publishers in her work.
- I then fruitlessly tried to get Linux to boot up.
- For the past five minutes, she had been fruitlessly trying to raise Gabriel.
- Workers in the emergency room try fruitlessly to separate the drunks from the other patients.
- They tried fruitlessly to free the women, breaking street lamps and windows.
- Others described being sent from one government office to another searching for documents, as they fruitlessly tried to comply with contradictory instructions.
- Huma tried fruitlessly to understand what was revealed in that lapse.
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