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Example sentences for "would try"

  • Mr. Sirle had charge of a question box, and gave some fine suggestions which I decided I would try to adapt to my business.

  • I decided I would try to control my tongue a little more, and would remember that the people who worked for me would do better work for me if they liked and respected me.

  • You might, indeed, tell him he has an evil trade, and he would tell you that you were right, and that he would try to avoid the gallows as long as possible.

  • Barbaro very nearly made me drop my serious countenance by telling me that if I would try my oracle I could let them know at once where the girl was.

  • Seeing that I could do nothing with him, unless, indeed, I sent him to some place far removed from Paris under his proper name, I told him to take comfort as I would try and do the best I could for both of us.

  • After questioning him I found that the local authorities were eager to prosecute these men, but could not locate them; and I made up my mind I would try my hand at it.

  • Will you have some of the cold chicken," said Jim, and I told him I would try a little.

  • He thought he would try to make her believe that he had been turning her trick upon herself; but he was wise in his day and generation, and did not seek refuge in that falsehood.

  • There never lived a Vernon who couldn't win a woman if he would try.

  • Now and then he would break into cursing, regardless of everything; and now and then his impatience would get the better of him, and he would try to get up, and poor Teta Elzbieta would have to plead with him in a frenzy.

  • The superintendent was busy, he said, but he (the timekeeper) would try to find Jurgis a job.

  • Now he clenched his hands, looking as if he would try to break through the grating.

  • Yes, he said, he would try, for the sake of Antanas.

  • So Marija was forced to take her dollars home with her, watching to right and left, expecting every instant that some one would try to rob her; and when she got home she was not much better off.

  • I suppose he fancied that if the maestro would only believe in the mysterious qualities of this wonderful organ of his he would try to bring them out; and in the meantime the happy Nicolo would be meeting Nina continually.

  • I think, if I were you, I would try to sleep for an hour or two; and I'll go into the other room so as not to disturb you.

  • I'm very sorry; if I could only get hold of her I would try to reason with her; but she was always sensitive and proud and impulsive like that.

  • And really, if I were you, I would try to forget that I had been 'higher' educated.

  • If I were you, Charlie, I would try to insure somebody else's trolley system.

  • At last Bartholomew thought he would try strategy.

  • He said he would buy her if the judge would feed her up and fatten her; and the judge said he would try.

  • I asked him if he would write, and he answered by tapping that he would try.

  • Shortly after this the psychic broke up the circle, saying that, as conditions were favorable, he would try to produce materialized forms.

  • All that he had been she should know, but far more important than that, he would try to make her know, better than he had done before, what he was now.

  • Every now and then it would bore with its head, or would try to turn off to one side, but the firm hand of the rider always brought its head around again, and it trotted on toward the corral.

  • All this was just what Hugh had told him about hunting, and Jack determined that he would try hard to remember and always to act on it.

  • The antelope kids can be got now, and if I were you I would try to get two or three.

  • And he would try to get the idleness and sloth out of the sailors of that ship by compelling them to take invigorating exercise and a bath.

  • He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts.

  • The Queen kept what count of her she could, and now and then would counsel moderation, or would try to impose it by getting some of the more elderly gentlemen-in-waiting to join her expeditions.

  • And yet, as often as such thought recurred to him he would try to choke it back, to bar his mind against it, lest the pull at his heartstrings snap them asunder.

  • Whenever the Angelas rang he would try to sing just like it; and now he has the habit and can't help it.

  • Why, I would try it even if a whole mountain fell on me!

  • And Josè could but clasp the earnest girl in his arms and vow that he would try again as never before.

  • To avoid such newspaper notoriety, he would try to arrange with Burr's counsel for the prisoner's appearance under additional bail, thus avoiding insistence upon the Government's request for the imprisonment of the accused.

  • He would try to get all the papers wanted if Marshall would say that they were material.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would try" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    noble woman; potential production; then hang; would answer; would appear; would ask; would begin; would better; would expect; would have been very; would know; would lose; would naturally; would not have been; would perhaps; would produce; would rather; would result; would ride; would suffer; would tell; would think; would venture; would walk; would want; wouldst thou