Sentence examples for own tried from inspiring English sources

But the girl merely went across the street on her own, tried out, and got the second lead.

Frederick Douglass, a man of Lincoln's time and, decidedly, not of our own, tried to lift those burdens with the strength of his ideals.

Aunt Marge, who loved to sew and shop and didn't have a daughter of her own, tried to get custody of my sister, Carrie, by having our parents declared unfit.

On the other side of the tiny peninsula of southern Bali, teams from the FBI and the Australian federal police, as well as Indonesia's own, tried to decipher the wreckage of the Sari Club discotheque, destroyed on October 12th.

Finally, Their Own Family The couple wanted a large family of their own, tried for several years without success, and had already begun the adoption process when Mrs. Bush learned that she was finally pregnant with fraternal twins.

At the lunch, as well as at a dinner on Monday night in New York with about two dozen staff members, Mr. Pearlstine, who has said he made the decision to turn over the documents on his own, tried to reassure those in attendance that it did not mean any lessening of the company's commitment to aggressive journalism.

If you'd rather give on your own, try the GOOD 30-day challenge.

Individual institutions aren't left on their own trying to solve these problems.

And she is convinced that cities are essentially on their own trying to figure things out.

Unless you have made your own, try Belvoir as it has the best natural flavour.

In this context, members of the herd have to make decisions on their own, trying to do the best for the group.