Sentence examples for first tried to from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cain at first tried to explain.

Taaffe first tried to form a cabinet above parties.

When Chen first tried to kill himself, people saved him.

When Schaap first tried to play a tape, it snapped.

Ederle first tried to swim the Channel in 1925.

Ever accommodating, Willy at first tried to rationalize the eel.

He first tried to pour sugar into his green tea.

The CBOT first tried to head off the attack with desperate lobbying in Washington.

Religious and aristocratic elites first tried to stop, then control, then co-opt the new medium.

Her accusers first tried to raise a public clamour for the president's resignation.

They first tried to blame the weather (lightning) before faulting the institute that designed the signalling.