Sentence examples for he died trying from inspiring English sources

And he died trying to help others live.

He died trying, as a British liaison officer, to make contact with the resistance movement in Bulgaria.

He died trying to save the life of a fellow police officer".

He died trying to help the community, as he had always done.

Official reports said he died trying to swim across the Saddam Canal in southeastern Iraq.

Their son, Juan, the Catholic bishop of Segovia, was also accused of heresy, and retreated in exile to Rome, where he died trying to clear the family's name.

West Virginia Mountain Party's Jesse Johnson says he'll keep running for Governor of the Mountain State until he wins or until he dies trying.

The script clarifies that he dies because of skinwalking, not the beating from the wolfpack, and that becomes a testament to Tommy's sad life: Everyone wanted to turn him into something -- a dogfighter, an ideal brother, a surrogate son -- and he dies trying not to be himself.

For weeks, I didn't know where he was, if he had died trying to cross into the US.

Michael's point of departure is indeed "the confusion in Velázquez between painting and life itself", but we'll never know whether he breached this captivated bafflement or whether he, literally, died trying.

Investigators at first assumed he had died trying to escape, but later determined that he had perished in or near his bedroom, most likely of smoke inhalation and heat, and that his body had fallen through burned flooring to where it was discovered.