Sentence examples for essayed from inspiring English sources

Previously, only the Pythons had essayed this all-goofball, no-straight-man arrangement – it was funny, but it wasn't sexy.

After Mr Singh's magical innings, one old hand pointed out that most of his strokes "were proper cricketing shots, and could only have been essayed by someone who was well-versed in the basics".

There he continued to write art criticism, a genre he had first essayed while editing Arise, a short-lived socialist periodical.

Fernán Caballero (pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber) essayed techniques of observation new to the novel in La gaviota (1849; The Seagull).

He also essayed courtly verse in Chaucer's manner (The Complaint of the Black Knight and The Temple of Glass), but his imitation of the master's style was rarely successful.

Paul Newman essayed the title role, which he had played in the 1955 Philco Playhouse production on which the film was based (Gore Vidal wrote both versions).

He essayed an acclaimed supporting role in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), skewering his own reputation as a show-business mandarin of little warmth.

She essayed biographical roles with her portrayals of Elizabeth Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and the title role in Marie Antoinette (1938).

Other actors to have essayed the role include, in a 2013 film, Johnny Depp.

The most distinguishing characteristic of N.W.A.'s approach was the very plain way that violence was essayed: as plainly as it occurred in the streets of south-central Los Angeles and neighbouring Compton, argued the group.

He essayed science fiction in Blue Light (1998) and Futureland (2001), a group of interlocking stories, and in his Crosstown to Oblivion (2012, 2013) series of novellas.