Judge in court

Usage examples of try.

Tane and Asara were firing on the first Aberrant creature, trying to dissuade it from the panicking manxthwa, but it held fast.

Dale of the Tower: there shall we abide a while to gather victual, a day or two, or three maybe: so my Lord will hold a tourney there: that is to say that I myself and some few others shall try thy manhood somewhat.

She went into the ablutions area and took a shower, trying to ignore the thing, which continued to watch her, or she presumed it was watching her, through its unblinking golden eye-slit.

The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.

I was staring up at the stars, thinking of the Gibson and McIlroy and that abo walking out alive, trying to picture what had really happened, my thoughts ranging and the truth elusive.

The third and fourth humans on the island had tried to find their privacy as far from the abo village and the tunnel pool as possible.

I had not tried to get myself on the uneditable tape, to provide the watchers some clue about where this abomination was taking place .

I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.

Panting, Abrim tried to brace himself against the smooth tunnel wall, but the low-friction coating defeated him and he began to slide slowly backward.

This exclusive club of cocaine abusers gradually began to recruit new members and, by 1959, 30 heroin addicts in theUKhad tried cocaine.

You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.

The room was abuzz with lesser courtiers trying to take their first step on the long and slippery ladder to preferment and office.

Banish weighed briefly the prospect of trying to get Abies back on the line, then dismissed it and set down the handset.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

She flexed the controls, watching the moire patterns of stress and acceleration shift, trying to correlate them with what she was feeling.