Sentence examples for and trying to commit from inspiring English sources

He had a room with a computer where he spent a lot of time going through poker hands and trying to commit to memory the likelihood of their appearing.

Victoria's penchant for self-destruction is so broadly articulated and randomly employed — here she's anorexic, there she's flunking school, then she's prostituting herself and trying to commit suicide by leaping into a polluted fountain, and now she's O.K., just a sensitive teenager in love — that it's hard to understand her.

It's a little after 4am San Francisco time – noon GMT – and I'm sitting in the arrivals lounge Heathrow airport, thanking the lord for Boingo hotspots and trying to commit these few hundred words to cyberspace before the daylight finally penetrates my brain and my whole body goes into jet-lag meltdown.

Meighan acknowledged that he had gone to Barnstaple, Devon, where Scott was then living, in order to canvas the area, but when his London accent aroused the suspicion of local residents, he informed his contact within the consipiracy, Andrew Newton, that he had decided against carrying out the murder, which resulted in Newton panicking and trying to commit the killing himself.

After he committed the murders, Speck went into hiding and tried to commit suicide.

There was a boy who was bullied into depression and tried to commit suicide.

Mr. Mahurin resisted his captors and tried to commit suicide, but he was among many American airmen who finally relented.

When his eyesight began to fail he became depressed and tried to commit suicide by throwing himself out of an upstairs window, but failed.

Well — sometime toward dawn she got up and tried to commit suicide — I heard her up in the kitchen about 6 30 — she was already almost unconscious.

The man, Alberto Ramos, 40, said that while in prison he endured beatings, was sodomized and tried to commit suicide several times.

Well sometime toward dawn she got up and tried to commit suicide—I heard her up in the kitchen about 6 30 she was already almost unconscious.