Sentence examples for tried to bash from inspiring English sources

"I think my Dad tried to bash a screwdriver into it with a mallet," I recall.

Time magazine reported: "The spectators, armed with bats they had picked up, tried to bash the players.

"Coach Simon picked up a remote control, which for us is the equivalent of a pretty large tree, and he tried to bash in my skull with it.

The next day another mob tried to bash its way into the Paris headquarters of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP .France, it seems, is in the grip of a petite révolution.

War veterans, the often violent agents of the state, subsequently threatened to set fire to the Americans' vehicle with them inside, and tried to bash in the windows with their rifle butts.

It looks like one of those manual jobs that looked great for Virginia Woolf-style posing (oh yes, darling, I'm a writer!) but could turn your fingers into bloodied stumps if you tried to bash out more than three consecutive sentences.

But when you try to bash them, you usually end up punching yourself in the nose.

When they try to bash Pierre Turgeon, look for Chris Pronger to stand up for him.

The idea that both groups were just people trying to bash through their lives is alien to them".

Today, Mr. Sharpton accused the defense of trying to bash the Bronx and blame Mr. Diallo for his own death.

Against 14 men, England then seized the initiative, and spent the last minutes of the first half trying to bash their way over the Welsh line.