Sentence examples for I persisted trying from inspiring English sources

"You must be an incredible mechanic in the boudoir," I persisted, trying to imagine just for a nanosecond what it would be like to be made love to by a combination of Heathcliff and Secretariat.

If it persists, try one of the other methods.

Even when the PMOS, these days a career civil servant who is obliged to play with the straightest of bats, has answered as best he can, they persist, trying to make him say more than he wishes or even, perish the thought, to catch him out in some way.

If your symptoms persist, try another small dose.

But I persisted and tried not to let their tween behavior dampen my joy.

Yet both Kitcher and I persist in trying to make a space for people who are religious, in the sense that we both want to accord them some kind of intellectual integrity and the justified possibility of holding to the beliefs that they do.

Yet, as a writer, I persisted for some years in trying to capture that elusive pastoral serenity.

"Sir?" the passenger persists, trying to seek him out via the rearview mirror, but the driver maintains his silence, eyes on the road, all the way to 33rd Street, looking away even as he reaches back to accept the fare and tip.

While Romney persisted in trying to have it both ways on the Ryan plan, Ryan persists in trying to pretend he's not the acolyte of Ayn Rand he proclaimed himself to be just a few short years ago.

Gawker "desperately persisted in trying to destroy people without basis.

A keener langlauf convert might have persisted in trying to master the elusive skating stride.