Sentence examples for this was trying from inspiring English sources

"Whoever did this was trying to kill our doctor," said Hollis Gibbs, a retired University of Arkansas employee and longtime patient of Dr. Pierce.

The would-be columnist who said this was trying to be cute herself -- and charming and gutsy -- and I appreciate that desire in a candidate.

"Our interest in this was trying to create an environment where someone was interested in coming and mining in the state," said Buchen, who left in 2012 to start a lobbying practice.

One example of this was trying to implement the use of evidence-based methods by making physicians participate in various types of quality registers.

This was tried before, and failed miserably.

Tells how this was tried at Emmaus House but had to be limited somewhat.

The last time this was tried, in 2000-2003, it was a failure.

Perhaps this was tried, but there has been no mention of it.

This was tried and tested.

This was tried, but the items behaved very differently.

This was tried and imposed too heavy a burden on the estimation algorithm.