Sentence examples for by trying to commit from inspiring English sources
When the prosecution asked him if the customer had wronged the store by trying to commit fraud, he responded: "Yes".
He told others in the building that he was trying to prevent her from trying to commit suicide by jumping from the building's roof.
It's pretty clear he's trying to commit suicide by cop, but what if there's a weapon in his pockets?
"What you had was a drug addict high on meth and alcohol," he said, speculating that Jeanetta may have been seeking out a fatal encounter with police – or trying to commit "suicide by cop".
Targets of her substantial ire have so far included ginger children ("so much harder to love"), ADHD ("an invented illness") and a man trying to commit suicide by jumping from a motorway bridge ("must people kill themselves so inconveniently?") It makes it more difficult for the rest of us to shock when someone like Hopkins exists.
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.
Individuals shot while holding knives are often seen as trying to commit suicide by cop and cops too often oblige.
The chief also noted an increase in shootings involving people investigators later determined may have been trying to commit "suicide by cop".
For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair (described as the "emotional climax of his life" ) with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide by throwing herself in Regent's Canal.
