Sentence examples for a trying summer from inspiring English sources

But after a trying summer for Mr. Trump, during which he seemed to set off controversy almost daily, he has displayed something approaching self-discipline in recent days.

After what might be described as a trying summer for British sports fans, the huge crowd thronging the circuit at Silverstone had real reason to celebrate.

The department has had a trying summer, after a sewage discharge at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Harlem led to the closure of four beaches last month and curtailed recreational activity on many city waterways.

Cook, labelled as technically deficient following a trying summer against swing bowling of the highest quality, has been a man transformed, not least by returning to the simple method that brought him his early success.

It was a chance to spread Scotland's cultural offerings before a wider audience, underlining its claims to a separate identity in the run-up to the referendum in 2014 on whether to leave the union.Between the queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, Scottish nationalists have found it a trying summer.

Regular readers of my blog know this has been a trying summer, with my dad passing away in July.

This Bridie Murphy has had a trying

Crowded City Venice is pulling out of a trying winter.

I suppose that's an appropriate end to a trying winter for England.

After a trying winter, Ms. Townsend said, "everyone is anxiously waiting to see how the summer goes".

Senator Bill Ratliff, Republican of Mount Pleasant, gave it a try a decade later.