Sentence examples for basically tried from inspiring English sources

"They basically tried to get everything about me.

Instead, the party basically tried to slink off to the sidelines, which only emboldened more primary challengers.

"They basically tried to take tuba players and say, 'Now you're going to conduct the orchestra,' " he said.

"He went to them and basically tried to find out independently, on his own, where each of them wanted to get the ball and how they wanted to score," Bibby said.

"Yesterday we basically tried to price the most positive outcome," said Nick Kalivas, vice president for research at MF Global, explaining a surge that lifted the Dow nearly 500 points and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index 7percentt.

Randy Levine, the Yankees' president who argued most of the case for the team, said, "We basically tried to explain that in our offer, Mariano Rivera would be the highest-paid closer in baseball".

It says, basically, Try another town.

"He was basically trying to spook her.

"Just basically trying to come up with our own language".

"He basically tries to overwhelm you with ideas and wherewithal.

"We were basically trying to recruit him," Vilma said.