Sentence examples for sit on trying from inspiring English sources

He was 32, fifth in line to a throne he will never sit on, trying to do good works while he can – and feeling increasingly isolated after a series of romances laid low by publicity.

"Obama would sit on high, trying to judge if there was any shared ground between the competing debate teams that might coalesce into a policy".

But they appear to lack a strike forward (like Sam Burgess) and a super-fly wing man like Dogs man Curtis Rona who sits on 19 tries equal with flying Fijian Eel Semi Radradra.

There are time banks – especially in Washington DC, in the youth justice system – that pay teenagers to sit on juries trying other teenagers (they use their time credits to buy computers).

We built a "war pole" to sit on and try to knock each other off with pillows.

There were only a few slimy, downwards-facing branches that I'd sit on and try to follow Anthony's instructions on using the carabiner thingys to do... something.

"Why British?" Mr. Colbert demanded in the opening interview, sitting under a Dr. Pepper ad while the six band members sat on stools, trying to suppress giggles.

In the duet it's amusing when the man carries on as if disregarding that chair; and equally so when he brings it into play, here allowing his partner to sit on it, there trying to use it as a resting place for her extended leg.

Keep the camera still, try to lean your arm on a wall or sit on a chair, try to zoom in.

"It's a risk if you sit on him and try to pick races because he can get hurt any time.

It was the inaugural piece in his series Let's Consider, in which he would wander around parks and high streets, and sit on Facebook and try to work out why we do the things we do, say the things we say and feel the things we feel.