Sentence examples for seems like trying from inspiring English sources

If that seems like trying to catch a hummingbird with your hands, it probably is.

"I feel very easy with the language of spirituality, and suppose that I have always backed off from anything that seems like trying to preach at people".

Distilling all the juice of her life into a standard-size container is, it seems, like trying to pour 10 gallons of fizzy water into a Dixie cup.

But if key elements of the bill are still undecided, voting on it seems like trying to build an airplane and fly it at the same time.

I don't remember any of it and found myself asking "Is it Sunday again already?" As a mom, watching my daughter's toddlerhood sometimes seems like trying to hold sand in my hands -- slipping through my fingers despite my attempts to grasp it.

That photo parade seemed like trying a little too hard.

Evans said that it hadn't occurred to him to contact Price: "It seemed like trying to reach Meryl Streep or something".

That's no small feat: reading the Internal Revenue Code may seem like trying to decode a cipher written solely for the benefit of lawyers and lobbyists.

While dressing players in stylish clothing with their hair down may seem like trying to make them glamorous, Mr. Nicks said "it was always more about showing how the body was twisting and turning and moving through space".

All these thoughts are very finely intertwined, and untangling them can sometimes seem like trying to pull apart a roll of fiberglass insulation and separate it out into individual glass threads.

"The idea of writing solely pitched-based music for string quartet did not make sense to me; it seemed like trying to think in a completely different language in which I had a vocabulary which consisted only of adverbs".