Sentence examples for taught him to try from inspiring English sources

His environment had taught him to try to conform.

This experience has taught him to be more open-minded, to try to see cases from both sides, he said.

The affable Irishman had thrown everything his Harvard MBA taught him at trying to turn round the country's fourth largest supermarket, but failed.

"We try to teach him to do things by himself, try to be independent," Mrs. Caceres said.

Itard, a child of both the Enlightenment and the Revolution, dresses the boy properly, teaches him to use tools, and tries to awaken his soul to morality and affection.

Taking this rather to extremes, Plowden argued that children should therefore be left to do their own thing: "Until a child is ready to take a particular step forward it is a waste of time to try to teach him to take it".Plowden scolded fuddy-duddy adults who could not accept this, and expected teachers to teach.

Instead of trying to annoy him, try to teach him to be cool.

She tried teaching him to play the piano and he wouldn't play the notes right.

He is dying of syphilis, and the two (as Mr. Findley tells us a bit too didactically) make a symbiotic trade-off: he will try to teach the hardened queen to mourn like a woman, and she will try to teach him to die like a man.

I try to teach him to eat with a spoon and a fork.

She tries to teach him to have insight into himself.