Sentence examples for rather tried from inspiring English sources

Or rather tried not to imagine, ever, especially while cruising at 30,000ft.

In an e-mail Ms. Truax said that she rarely cut entire families but rather tried to compress their stories.

The new Egypt, the Egypt of the January 25th revolution, is a democratic Egypt: the ruler will be neither deified nor executed, but rather tried in a just manner.

Mr. Obama did not wade into the uproar among Democrats over whether the bill would have a public insurance component, a key point of contention, but rather tried to correct what he said were untruths about the plan.

Though Mr. Rather tried to control his emotions yesterday, he at times seemed shaken and displayed an anger, defiance and patriotism that he had shown often since Sept. 11.

Most employers did not make a fuss of the women disappearing but rather tried to prepare for the influx of overexcited youngsters who would have to accompany their fathers to work.

Or, rather, trying to reshape one.

Noël Coward had a rather trying war.

I'd rather try my luck with Shippea Hill.

I'd rather try to figure it out by myself".

In fact, he had two rather trying wars.