Sentence examples for place tried from inspiring English sources

As it turns out, the security guards at the storage place tried to shake him down for rent.

They said the kitchen staff at the Huntsville Unit, where executions take place, tried to accommodate inmates' requests "within reason," using food in the prison kitchen.

She said the UK border force had put in place "tried and tested" contingency plans to deal with chaotic scenes that led to the Channel tunnel being closed.

The home secretary, Theresa May, said British and French authorities had prevented "significant numbers" of migrants in Calais from getting on to lorries and entering the UK in the last two days, and the government had put in place "tried and tested" contingency plans.

By Helen Riesenfeld The New Yorker, May 6 , 1933P. 65 Tells about a girl that brought a blouse into a cleaners in Paris and when she came back, the woman who ran the place tried to conceal the fact that the buttons had been ruined in the cleaning.

This mobility-as-service approach is not new; the (now bankrupt) battery-swapping startup Better Place tried it, and Hyundai recently introduced a similar programme in the southwest US for its Tucson electric SUV, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Every place tries to make the most of what it has got.

A cheap mob place trying to be Vegas, with an understocked bar and slots from yesteryear.

We were running all over the place trying all these different brunch spots.

All trips have a low point, and I believe ours took place trying to escape Toledo, Ohio.

If you think the name is hard to place, try the rest of him.