Sentence examples for tried to equal from inspiring English sources

But if he does win gold in Weymouth, few would be surprised if he tried to equal Redgrave's record of five golds.

I liked that; we would walk past the planes and the lines of Bloodhound missiles, but most of all I remember, as I tried to equal my dad's long strides, that other men would salute him.

For the second time in as many majors, nerves got to Williams as she tried to equal Steffi Graf's Open-era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles.

This route limited his exposure to the blurry edges and grainy light of Pictorialist photography, which tried to equal painting by imitating it and was practiced and promoted by Edward Steichen, Clarence White and, initially, Stieglitz.

The pressure of trying to equal Graf is gone.

The speed and volume of correction or response have to try to equal the speed and volume of error.

If everybody's expecting me to pretend that I'm trying to equal that, then that's insanity.

But López will now have to gather himself as he tries to equal his best-ever performance here, having reached the last eight in 2005 and 2008.

But their job is to do what they are doing, to win matches and to try to equal the standards that Spain has set as the world's best at the moment.

When she tees off tomorrow in the Longs Drugs Challenge near Sacramento, she will be trying to equal the L.P.G.A. record of five consecutive victories, set by Nancy Lopez as a rookie in 1978.

From the back seat, Mrs. Taylor said that they had stopped doing mileage demonstration runs for reporters the way they once did: put an egg under the accelerator, drive for a while, then let the reporter try to equal their mileage.