Sentence examples for put it trying from inspiring English sources

"A fair draw," as Coach Bob Bradley put it, trying to keep his heels from clicking together in glee.

As Paul put it, "Trying to learn to play the cello is a metaphor for striving for mastery in any aspect of life".

Mr. Gabeler's "air ops" also included, as Mr. Devlin put it, trying to recover American pilots "who had gone down". In such cases, Mr. Devlin said, the goal was to rescue those downed pilots before Communist troops captured them.

The new committee is intended to streamline the investigation and head off a situation in which competing panels are "tripping all over each other," as one lawmaker put it, trying to get a piece of the action and the publicity.

He ran for office in 2003 and now manages a district of seventy thousand people, installing public toilets and bus shelters, rebuilding primary schools, cleaning up streets, juggling the "diametrically opposed" interests of his rich and poor constituents, and, as he put it, "trying to maintain some sense of order".

As Puri put it, "Trying to understand what's happening may be less important than recognizing that their behavior is not fitting the norm and impairing them in some way, and thus wanting them to get some help or care".

Then Bechtel came to Cochabamba and, as the local peasants put it, tried to "lease the rain".

At least a dozen other journalists and photographers were visited in their homes over the weekend and repeatedly warned not to cause trouble — or, as one officer put it, try to "topple the party".

As Tomasky puts it, "Trying to win Southern seats is not worth the ideological cost for Democrats".

But is it really comforting for parents of teenagers to embrace an evolutionary explanation for what remain, as Mr. Dobbs puts it, "trying, contrary or flat-out scary moments"?

Shortly after midnight he was arrested in Southern California for driving under the influence, and later in the day he was arrested again in a tow yard for, as Doug Farrar at Yahoo puts it, "trying to steal his own car".