Makes an effort

Usage examples of tries.

And if Lenz tries to temper the spurning by telling Green he likes him, where the fuck is he supposed to look when he says it?

If anyone tries to trouble you, they will soon learn you have friends, their quivering stems seemed to say.

I sense the predicament of the shoemaker who tries to sell shoes in a village of shoemakers.

After four tries, the lock gave way, and they spilled out into the corridor.

Basically, the legal profession tries to clarify definitions and concepts to the point where several people, using common sense logic, can reach a common conclusion.

An engineer, on the other hand, tries to work only with purely logical terms and concepts that everybody understands from the beginning.

It tries to make connections between inputs of data as fast as it can, to enable it to be ready for action.

EC chart tries to show the source of the importance indicators, while the FC chart tries to show if they result in positive or negative actions.

Anytime a cop tries to falsify evidence or a prosecutor presents a biased criminal complaint, I say put that bastard in jail instead of his victim!

In any event, IPS tries to force you to look at the broad long term factors.

IPS system tries not to rely on PDX explanations and rationalizations.

If anyone tries to harm me, you can grab my dagger and save me, all right?

Penn tries to claim that the vaporized Ann Kittenplan is wearing several articles of gear worth mucho INDDIR, and everyone tells him to shut up.

The riveting thing about Treat is how her cheeks are deeply pitted in these deep trenches that she packs with foundation and tries to cover over with blush, which along with the hair gives her the look of a mean clown.

This is why she tries so terribly hard to leave Mario alone, not to hover or wring, to treat him so less specially than she wants: it is for him.