Sentence examples for admitted to trying from inspiring English sources

"You admitted to trying to break Mr. Botha's arm," Ayoub said.

According to the prosecutor in the case, Mr. Abdulmutallab admitted to trying to blow up the plane to a fellow passenger on the flight and two federal agents.

Haye admitted to trying just a bit harder when he noticed Dundee, who looks increasingly like Yoda, take up a position near the corner post.

Mr Portillo himself did not say whether he had tried cannabis but he has admitted to trying homosexuality in his university years.

In recent weeks, after North Korea admitted to trying to make nuclear bombs and to kidnapping Japanese citizens, food donors pulled back.

The Fox News poll from May 2010 asked: "The man who police say admitted to trying to bomb Times Square is a Pakistani who recently became a U.S. citizen.

And while he would not admit to trying it, Girardi offered a prediction for why his teammates did it.

Deciding what to wear was of paramount importance, of course, and I will admit to trying on several outfits before being satisfied.

She is now credited as the inventor of the appropriately named Dram – she admits to trying to think of a clever name.

He also admits to trying violence himself, once nearly smothering his baby brother, once, in the throes of a divorce, beating up his first wife's lover.

But he also admits to "trying to find contributors and thinking of angles" within hours of that tower's collapse, moved, he implies, by a sense of responsibility similar to that which brought police and firemen to Ground Zero.