Sentence examples for and trying to discern from inspiring English sources

I've been studying the honking patterns of taxi-drivers from the back seat and trying to discern patterns.

The narrator, whose name we never learn, is painfully self-aware, given to obsessively questioning his own motives and trying to discern Clara's to an extent that often leaves him paralyzed and mute.

There is some interesting academic research into all this — economists looking at dating-site data and trying to discern whether people care less about racial differences, or socioeconomic differences, or political differences, than they do out in the "real" world.

She joined a dig where archeologists were uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement not far from her home and trying to discern what happened there after the Romans left.

The slow breakdown of the plume, if verified by additional research, suggests that scientists may find themselves tracking the toxic compounds from BP's well and trying to discern their impact on sea life for a long time.

In Fort Lauderdale, meanwhile, hundreds of raucous Republican demonstrators heckled Broward County election officials who resumed the task of slowly going through 1,500 ballots and trying to discern if voters who did not make a clear punch in their ballot cards had intended to vote for one of the presidential contenders.

Bagehot spent time at Paddington last month with a more modest goal, to look at one successful school and try to discern what makes it different.

"Does anyone?" My fellow birders and I tilted our necks skyward, held our binoculars at the ready and tried to discern the slightest movement in the branches above.

"A good mediator will listen to both sides of the story and try to discern common threads among the arguments," he said.

Carel Pedre, Radio presenter, via twitter Today we are beginning to prepare for mobile medical clinics and try to discern a safe and smart way to begin to do this in our area.

Together, trading the writing in tag-team fashion, they assess the key departments of twentysomething life — school, careers, dating, family-making, and so forth — and try to discern how much has actually changed.