Sentence examples for thousands of tries from inspiring English sources

Some of them do run into thousands of tries".

Edison needed thousands of tries to get the light bulb right; what if he had only had the money to try five or six?

It may take thousands of tries to hit a home run with Waluigi against the computer, so a second player is a must-have.

Seabelo Senatla went over for his 10th and 11th tries of the tournament on either side of half-time to give South Africa a 12-7 lead, before Cecil Afrika raced in from the halfway line to extend the Springboks' lead to 10 points.

The prolific Rhinos wing Ryan Hall settled a pulsating battle with his 28th and 29th tries of the season to establish a two-point cushion at the top of Super League, but his team's veteran centre, Keith Senior, ended the match in the sin-bin after flattening Jon Wilkin – "practising his boxing", according to the Saints coach, Mick Potter.

On the other hand, this is the year in which the 15-times champion jump jockey won the Grand National, at the 15th time of trying.

On January 3rd thousands of opposition supporters tried to converge on the centre of Nairobi for a protest rally but were dispersed by the police.

SPORTING his trademark Palestinian kaffieh round his neck, he fulminates against the governors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, which reported Iran to the UN Security Council on February 4th on suspicion of trying to make nuclear bombs.

But on the anniversary of the election that made Donald Trump America's 45th president, thousands of Americans are trying out a new tack: banding together, craning their necks to the heavens, and screaming helplessly at the sky.

But the powerful 15 stone, six-foot winger simply put his head down and charged his way over, the Leeds top scorer claiming the 21st of his 22 tries this season.

Jamie Jones-Buchanan went off at 26 minutes with a knee problem and Brett Delaney hung on until half-time with a leg injury, when Leeds led 4-0 cofrtesy of Watkins' 20th try of the season on 31 minutes.