have essayed
- present perfect of essay.
Example Sentences
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His last two albums have essayed a music of extraordinary intimacy and strangeness, schooled in the last century's avant gardes but with baritone phantoms of the familiar Scott still in attendance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Here, as at the South-gate, they seem to have essayed to open communication, and to have been replied to in the same way.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.
That he was the first to try the system of a party ministry and party government is, as I have essayed to show, a fact of little significance.
From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)
Few have there been who have essayed both.
From Dickens' London by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
Had she loved him, or not known that he was her lover, Agatha would soon have essayed the womanly part of comforter, but now timidity restrained her.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Crane, Walter
