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How to use the word tries in a Sentence? Page #10

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The ACA tries to do both of these things, though we would need more evidence to know whether policies like the ACA can break the link between becoming ill and foreclosure.

Jason Houle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If he tries to close it on his own, we'll see.

Bob Corker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Every time the (oil) market tries to pick itself up, it's just another wave of selling.

Gene McGillian

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every time the market tries to pick itself up, it's just another wave of selling.

Gene McGillian

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no such thing as pressuring Bill Gardner and woe to the person who tries, bill is going to do what he thinks is best for the primary and that's it.

Ray Buckley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We pose no threat to anyone and do not intend to get involved in any geopolitical games or intrigues, let alone conflicts, no matter who tries to draw us into them or how they do so, at the same time, it is indispensable to securely safeguard the sovereignty and integrity of Russia and the security of our allies.

Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Robert Townsend

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years. But what I love about Lindsay is that she is basically a girl trying to find her way in the world. She keeps a lot of her feelings inside, which can be painful, but she tries so hard to help people. She is one of those kids who wants to be accepted for who they are, but isn't sure how to do that--which is what I think makes her so endearing" --Cardellini, quoted in NBC press material, talking about Lindsay Weir, her character on the series "Freaks and Geeks

Linda Cardellini

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He who doesn't know and doesn"t know that he doesn't know doesn"t know that he is a fool the man who never makes a single mistake is the man who never tries

itsekor damilola

added by anonymous
9 years ago

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Charles F. Kettering

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Noam Chomsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

“There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love--it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.”

Beyoncé

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…

Ernest Hemingway

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny the Elder

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Marguerite Duras

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All what man tries to make or manufactures is one of the greatest things bringing down his life span. Bombs, guns, cars, Bicycles, Foods etc

KIZZA RONALD

added by anonymous
11 years ago

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The concept of internal customers suits the wimpy organization headed by a wimp who tries to appease everyone and satisfy no-one.

Jonar Nader

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark, former baseball coach

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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