Sentence examples for persistently trying from inspiring English sources

*** My bank has been calling me persistently, trying to sell me various insurance products.

The human defines the cosmos not by being at its center, but by persistently trying to explore it.

I had spent the better part of five hours that evening — in my flat, in my car, in the cinema, and in a park — persistently trying to get my hand to go where she would not have it go.

Similarly, for fifteen years AM/FM stations have done everything they could to cripple satellite radio, lobbying the F.C.C. to stop its roll-out in the nineteen-nineties and persistently trying to limit the types of programming XM and Sirius can carry.

However, recently, new intramedullary devices have been used persistently, trying to solve problems such as infections [3, 7], traumatic breaks [8, 9] and malalignments [10] tied to the K-wire.

The Americans were aware of Khánh's tactics and exploited it by persistently trying to scare his colleagues with the prospect of a military heavily restricted by the absence of US funding.

Each company has persistently tried to best Google but failed.

Today's culture, instead of facing mysteries, persistently tries to outflank them.

We can be narcissistic creatures, and technology persistently tries to fulfil our desire to be seen.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, December 26 , 1931 P. 7A drugstore clerk persistently tried to get us to buy some coffee every time we went into the store.

The gun lobby has traditionally opposed new restrictions and persistently tries to divert attention after mass killings to cultural and social factors.