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Example sentences for "endeavor"

Lexicographically close words:
endeared; endearing; endearment; endearments; endears; endeavored; endeavoring; endeavors; endeavour; endeavoured
  1. Why not endeavor then to preserve it, until the season for drones approaches, and then give it a queen?

  2. As I do not wish to treat such persons with even the appearance of disrespect, I shall endeavor to show just how the use of the hives which they have devised, has contributed to undermine the prosperity of the bees.

  3. I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality.

  4. An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

  5. To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

  6. To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue.

  7. To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

  8. Father's heart will miss him but he will not seek to stay an endeavor of his earnest, ambitious boy.

  9. Hawes told of one of his prisoners making an endeavor to escape, and when asked whether he blamed the man for trying to get away, answered that he thought the prisoner was a pretty big baby.

  10. Their names, too, were placed on the bulletin board, and the boycott and other devices used in an endeavor to force them into bankruptcy.

  11. Yet the ethics of the legal profession are such that this attorney could justify his actions in laboring for months in an endeavor to secure, by any and all means, the conviction of the men on the boat!

  12. It is not mere reliance on what Christ was and did, but active endeavor to become and to do like him.

  13. Open, then, the portals of the abbey, sir, and your niece will endeavor to do proper credit to the hospitality of its master.

  14. Keep then your eye on him, my cousin, and tell me the colors that he shows, with their order, and I will endeavor to read his meaning.

  15. Tis a frigate's draught, and I shall endeavor to keep you in four fathoms; less than that would be dangerous.

  16. Know your object, that it is worthy the highest endeavor of a human being, and then pursue it with a divine enthusiasm that no obstacle can daunt, an ardor that no weariness can quench.

  17. The states, alarmed at all these steps, sent orders to their ambassadors to endeavor the renewal of the treaty of alliance, which had been broken off by the abrupt departure of St. John.

  18. The Irish Catholics, in all their future transactions with the king, where they endeavor to excuse their insurrection, never had the assurance to plead his commission.

  19. My intention is not to disfigure this picture, drawn by so masterly a hand: I shall only endeavor to remove from it somewhat of the marvellous; a circumstance which, on all occasions, gives much ground for doubt and suspicion.

  20. It was evidently the interest, both of king and parliament, to finish their treaty with all expedition; and endeavor by their combined force to resist, if possible, the usurping fury of the army.

  21. We shall endeavor to exhibit a just idea of the events which followed for some years, so far as they regard foreign affairs, the state of the court, and the government of the nation.

  22. We must here endeavor to explain the genius of this party, and of its leaders, who henceforth occupy the scene of action.

  23. I endeavor to be in Character in all I do, and in all my Expences which are pretty large I have great Satisfaction in the Reflection of their being incurred in Honorable Company and to my Advantage.

  24. Having done such good work in the New Hampshire election, her next field of endeavor was Connecticut, where the Republicans were completely disheartened, for nothing, they said, could prevent the Democrats from carrying the State.

  25. Then he tore himself free, with the loss of a wing and a leg, and finally, creeping helplessly around on the carpet in a vain endeavor to reach the garden, he was crushed by a heavy foot.

  26. The slender brown hand was shaken in Johannes' face, in an endeavor to express its owner's contempt, while the dark face of the East-Indian took on an expression of one compelled to drink something bitter.

  27. To describe this journey needs a more romantic pen than mine, but I'll endeavor to tell you of some of the features and things that we saw which were so strange and wonderful to me.

  28. Having a number of pupils in the members of the Christian Endeavor Society, I was urged upon by the pastor, Rev.

  29. For sixty years I had been active in many lines of endeavor such as drawing, writing, painting, sewing and singing.

  30. The writer in his young days has many a time accompanied the Indians on these hunts, and the description of my last participation in this exciting mode of hunting I will endeavor to explain to the reader.

  31. I must digress a little at the start to explain that otters often, in the autumn, endeavor to find some tenantless beaver lodge situated on a chain of small lakes.

  32. He met the old overseer cordially, in a half drunken endeavor to be natural.

  33. She laughed: "That was ever a chronic endeavor of your youth.

  34. But I think if complete secrecy were ordered, both in the bank and elsewhere, while every endeavor was being made at discovery, the detectives would have a better chance of success, on whatever theory they may work.

  35. Ought they to cut the towline, get up a bit of a sail, and endeavor to make the north shore of the lake?

  36. He could not endeavor to resist tears when he knew that he had been unnecessarily harsh, and he was glad of the opportunity to smile also and to smooth things over.

  37. The fun of this consisted in the endeavor to avoid being blown into the water.

  38. One could see that, once on, the dress was perhaps not thought of again, that it was not the main part of her pleasure, but was lost in her endeavor to make herself agreeable, and in this way to enjoy herself.

  39. The first thing he did was to endeavor to quiet the wildness of her despair.

  40. Here was a nice point submitted to his judgment,--whether to follow the line of the recently formed schrund yawning at his feet, or endeavor to cross it, or go back to the scene of the landslip?

  41. Far better have asked Helen to visit her privately, and endeavor to find out exactly how the land lay before she encountered Bower.

  42. She half expected that Bower would endeavor to meet her privately while dinner was being served.

  43. But in the meantime, we must endeavor to put such silly projects out of his head, my dear friend.

  44. I must endeavor to keep my spirits up this day, for poor Charles' sake.

  45. I shall see McBean to–morrow and endeavor to see what I can do with him.

  46. They shrink from them as from pollution, and endeavor to create for themselves an imaginary state, in which pain and imperfection either do not exist, or exist in some edgeless and enfeebled condition.

  47. But there is one point of some interest respecting the effect of it on any mind, which must be settled first, and this I will endeavor to do in the next chapter.

  48. I will not endeavor here to trace the various modes in which these results are likely to be effected, for this would involve an essay on education, on the uses of natural history, and the probable future destiny of nations.

  49. I do not think we ever enough endeavor to enter into what a Greek's real notion of a god was.

  50. All this is very beautiful, and may sometimes urge us to an endeavor to make the world itself more like the conception of the painter.

  51. The life of Angelico was almost entirely spent in the endeavor to imagine the beings belonging to another world.

  52. Without farther questioning, I will endeavor to state the main bearings of this matter.

  53. Fiend I must have been, with such sophistry to endeavor to poison that sanctuary of holy thought and tender love.

  54. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

  55. Well, then," continued the Doctor, "I will endeavor to explain it.

  56. I sincerely trust that the inquirer would be disappointed who should endeavor to trace any more immediate reasons for their adoption of the cause of Alexander III.

  57. Herbert, getting up with a lively shake as if he had been asleep, and stirring the fire, "now I'll endeavor to make myself agreeable again!

  58. It was quite in vain for me to endeavor to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham.

  59. The commons, alarmed at this intelligence, appointed another committee to attend the queen, and endeavor to satisfy her of their humble and dutiful intentions.

  60. He follows that with: "A further observation to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavor to preserve it.

  61. A further objection to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavor to preserve it.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.