Sentence examples for I tried phoning from inspiring English sources

I tried phoning the National Baseball Hall of Fame to ask but they didn't know either.

I've tried phoning around some theatrey friends in Wales, but am struggling to get hold of them (perhaps they're frolicking in snowdrifts).

So when it started happening we tried phoning Lee.

I tried to phone him but he probably quite rightly had his phone switched off".

Nothing arrived so I tried to phone several times, but the queue was so long I gave up.

"I tried to phone Hull's physio, who was the only one who really knew what was going on.

In the terminal I tried to phone the Guardian's Moscow office but a Kremlin operator, hearing my foreign accent, refused to put me through.

I tried to phone but no one was available to speak so I emailed, pointing out that I had already sent in two sets of forms certified by a solicitor.

I tried to phone in a bid myself, but the lines were closed.

The past few times I tried to phone my Huffington Post colleague Dr. Alex Pattakos, I reached a "number that has been disconnected".

I tried the phone, but it rang at the box office without an answer.