trying
adjective
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try
verb (used with object), tried, try·ing.
verb (used without object), tried, try·ing.
noun, plural tries.
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tricky, troublesome, taxing, upsetting, arduous, demanding, strenuous, irritating, stressful, vexing, fatiguing, exacting, rough, annoying, exasperating, aggravating, exigent, hard, irksome, onerousExamples from the Web for trying
Contemporary Examples of trying
Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen HawkingM.L. Nestel
January 8, 2015
Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.
Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”
He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.
Historical Examples of trying
What a glorious double stroke it would be, after all their years of trying.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
"Another tribe is trying to break into our land," he said to himself.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
But I tell you, I am trying to find out what the matter is that you need my help in.