I tried hard to remember, but could not; the past was a total blank.
Fortunately I had to walk, and I tried hard to keep my eyes open all the time.
I tried hard to act upon his advice, but all the time continued to wonder whether my father was alive or dead.
Rakoczy bubbled over with laughter; but, seeing how much in earnest my brother was, he tried hard to keep a straight face, and asked how he proposed to do it.
However, I tried hard not to despair, and resolved, if need be, to meet my fate bravely.
I tried hard to march with steady step and unfaltering countenance, but it was hard work.
Even sister Judith, bent on picking a hole in the record somewhere, tried hard, and could make nothing of it.
I tried hard to penetrate the mystery--and gave it up in despair.
For myself, I tried hard, and tried vainly, to get over my first dislike to the senior pupil.
My face burned as I said, "I've tried hard to like you ever since we met.
I tried hardto soothe my restive charger, which whinnied after me impatiently as I went away again, just as if the poor brute felt disappointed because I had not mounted and ridden him off.
He tried hard to draw an approval from me of what he had done.
Here Moore and I tried hard to persuade our companions to stop, tie up and go back with us and creep on to the robbers, believing we could surprise and whip them.
He tried hard to get me to load him into a wagon and start, but I could see that he was fast failing.
I tried hard to discover in them those fighting qualities which had distinguished their forefathers during the wars of the last and the beginning of the present century.
Gough never heard of them again, though he tried hard to trace what had become of the men who proved themselves such 'friends in need.
He came, and I tried hard to break him of his failing.
I tried hard as a correspondent to draw a reasonable, human picture of American affairs, but it seemed to make no impression.
Suffering, bodily and mental, had left its traces upon his face and frame, but his love for me was greater than ever, and he tried hard to make up to me all I lost; as if I had really lost anything in choosing him before all the world.
Albert Stevens was married shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, and he tried hardto succeed in New England; but he had no trade and no profession, and the best lands in the country were bought.
His dialect he knew would betray him, and when he was asked where he lived and where he was from, he tried hardto conceal his brogue; but it was in vain.
The captain rose and, taking the hand of the young man, tried hard to remember where he had seen him before.
He tried hard to think that the man whom Elizabeth loved could not be Brian Luttrell.
The lad, Dino Vasari, or whatever his name is, tried hardto keep him, but failed.
He tried hard to make Brian accompany him on his next expedition, but failed.
He called her "dear Lucette" several times; and he tried hard to prompt hope of a speedy return to Rochelle and a reunion with her excellent father.
He tried hard not to see and not to feel, so as to escape disgust.
In his incurable optimism, he tried hard to believe that he would find a way to make good, if not his own losses, at least those of his clients.
As he spoke he tried hard to kick off his heavy boots, but they clung to his legs, and to have continued striving meant to sink.
I'll confess it; I've tried hard indirectly, and hoped to get thee over to our Church.
I tried hard to persuade myself it was amusement, and went down to breakfast wondering how Draven's would keep it up.
I tried hard to find an empty carriage; but the train was full and there was no such luxury to be had.
I mentioned the fact, and could see that Harry had forgotten it, for he tried hard to back out of his arrangement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tried hard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
