The phrase "though we tried" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a contrast or a concession, meaning that despite trying to do something, the expected or desired result was not achieved. Example: Though we tried our best, we still couldn't beat the other team in the soccer game.
"Even though we tried to break every record to get the trials started, to be honest, it was still too late.
The cancer had turned out to be a benign tumor with little promise, though we tried to hurry it along with prayer and good works.
"It is true that we can't find many benefits of climate change and I believe it's because there aren't many benefits, even though we tried really hard to find them," Dr Field said.
He has a passionate love affair with the spoiled, beautiful ("arresting was the word, though we tried to use it sparingly in a police state") daughter of the deputy interior minister, and he makes friends with an elderly hero of the Communist revolution who is writing two versions of his memoirs — one for the censors at home and another for publication abroad.
And though we tried at first to give each other "space" — with my immediate family moving into the basement rooms, and my older brother moving upstairs to the second-floor guest room near my parents' room — it quickly proved a futile exercise.
I couldn't believe how everyone in my camp was doubting me, from the president (even though we tried to confine him to Black Entertainment Television and keep him off CNN) to my overpaid Washington hacks to all those Democrats who wanted me to brag on our economy and campaign with Bill, because people like him.
More usually, though, we try to bury the memory of the deed, or distract ourselves from the guilt, because it's too uncomfortable to live with the lie".
Even here, though, we try to be targeted, letting buyers' activity help us understand the best categories in which to recommend merchandise.
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Even though we try and go for the ultimately quick pit stop, we are also very much safety orientated.
We are the projects we choose, though we try to escape from the responsibility by pretending other forces control our lives.
