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Example sentences for "you try"

  • You try that on the burro and he'll kick you into the middle of next week," warned Walter.

  • You try it first, and, if you don't make it, you lose.

  • I'll turn you both over my knee if you try to repeat these performances," warned the Professor.

  • If you try to straighten it, the odds are that you break it off and then have to waste a day or more getting another fixed, which, most likely, does not suit when done.

  • Don't you try any of your gun-play or intimidation on me," he fairly shouted.

  • You just mind me, and don't you try to do too much.

  • They mob you here and string you up by your pigtail, if you try to hint that this isn't the one best bet on terrestrial habitations.

  • Well, if you try to come over with your shoes on you'll fall in, I tell you; and then you'll wet more than your feet.

  • You will succeed if you try, dear, never fear, if you apply yourself in your trying to the only unfailing source of wisdom and strength, to Him without whom you can do nothing.

  • But you can make her love you, Ellen, if you try.

  • If you try to bolt, they will certainly shoot you.

  • You can't spend much money up there if you try.

  • Stand where you are, and it will be the worse for you if you try to bolt.

  • You try it an' I'll scratch your eyes out!

  • You must step out lively to play tennis, or golf, or to skate, while if you try to swim without work, you'll drown.

  • Won't you try to imagine what she is suffering to-day, in the change from what she went to you hoping, and what she received at your hands?

  • Lie still, you two, for if you try to move we'll serve you like jackals on the veldt.

  • And look here; we've six men with loaded rifles about the wagon, and they've orders to shoot if you try to get away.

  • You try to reform him because he's idolized by his sister that you're in love with.

  • You look at her now, then go up and hug her the way you did yesterday; you try to get her to give up mopping, but she won't, so you let her go on.

  • You try to make the right guess, with whatever good judgment you've got at the time.

  • You try to help your patients live in the jungle, which must mean plenty of yielding here to gain a little there.

  • But after a moment he surprised her by a quiet question: "Why don't you try to convince me that I am wrong?

  • You can be quite a good chap if you try," he said.

  • Bertie, why do you try to hide things from me?

  • On the contrary, I point out that you will be compromising if you try to keep both your conscience and your love.

  • If you love me, why do you try to hurt the people who love me too?

  • If you try that," said Lady Casterley grimly, "you'll soon come to grief.

  • If you try, then I can but pray that you will fail.

  • I tell you, Billy, as true as I stand here this minute, if you try to fight the gang, you won't last out your term.

  • Tip, don't you try to bluff me, like Crafty, that you can see.

  • Don't you try to ride me," snarled the genial Rafe.

  • If you want to be unpleasant, Chris, can't you try a different line?

  • I'm going to send Miss Muller here, and we'll come round and pound the foolishness out of you if you try to send back anything she brings with her.

  • Still, by the Lord who made us both, if you try to make use of this knowledge for any purpose, or let a whisper get about, I'll crush you utterly.

  • You are ingenious, you can divert them from it, if you try; it is not as if they had any instincts of affection to guide them in finding me out.

  • I won't trouble you with my tears again, even if you try to make me cry, as you did a little while ago.

  • You try to say you love me yet; wait till I tell you, wait till you know all, before you say you love me!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
    dead child; several ways; you choose; you didn; you don; you for; you had; you know nothing about; you propose; you that; you will; you will have the; young and; young children; young knight; young masters; young person; young soldier; young trees; young women; your face; your father; your name; your old; your time; your wife