Sentence examples for persists trying to from inspiring English sources

"Sir?" the passenger persists, trying to seek him out via the rearview mirror, but the driver maintains his silence, eyes on the road, all the way to 33rd Street, looking away even as he reaches back to accept the fare and tip.

To understand why this condition persists, try to track what else is happening in your body when the condition gets better or worse.

When you have a terrible memory that persists, try to pick it apart.

"You must be an incredible mechanic in the boudoir," I persisted, trying to imagine just for a nanosecond what it would be like to be made love to by a combination of Heathcliff and Secretariat.

Even when the PMOS, these days a career civil servant who is obliged to play with the straightest of bats, has answered as best he can, they persist, trying to make him say more than he wishes or even, perish the thought, to catch him out in some way.

Undeterred, Kongzi persists in trying to impregnate his wife.

The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Odd, then, that Pfizer persists in trying to make Britain its second home.

As well as anyone, Hansen ought to know this; still, he persists in trying to make contact.

Yet Washington will have little choice but to accept that escalation if China persists in trying to intimidate Taiwan.

Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.