Sentence examples for habit of trying from inspiring English sources

Agents have a nasty habit of trying to feather their own nests.

Both have a bad habit of trying to pick winners in Ukrainian politics.

They have lost the knowledge of how to influence and the habit of trying.

American television writers, by contrast, have an ingrained habit of trying to make even the most boorish characters lovable.

Journalists have a habit of trying to package four or five unrelated events as a meaningful trend.

The food world has a habit of trying to fix things that aren't broken, often for the sake of experimentation.

Less forgivable is her habit of trying to pump up the text with colons and exclamation points: Like this!

Because I have fallen into the habit of trying too often to make writing read like speaking.

Less welcome is Mason's habit of trying to impress the reader with perky ways of putting things.

(Fonda says that she has a habit of trying to make things better for other people, of wanting to "smooth out the Kleenex").

And then there is the habit of trying to make a line retroactively uproarious by admitting that it really wasn't funny to begin with.