Sentence examples for tried toward from inspiring English sources

The risk was that some Americans might wonder why conciliation ought not to be tried toward both countries.

The kindly but altogether-too-comfortable-walking-in-and-out-of-my-dressing-room-whenever-she-felt-like-it saleswoman tried, toward the end of my visit, to get me to try on a denim jacket with snaps up one side, a mink collar and buckles over the hip ($1,500).

First she bounced toward Dancy, then she crawled on her knees; she tried slithering toward him and throwing herself over the back of the sofa, readjusting the length of her body to calibrate the comic effect of the outline.

Before he again tried to move toward the police, he noticed a man stumbling toward him, covered in blood.

She tried to scoot toward him, but her left leg would not budge.

Then he turned his back to the green and tried hitting backward toward the tee.

Partly as a result, Mr. Zyuganov has apparently tried to move toward the center.

The most critical came when he tried to dive toward the goal line but had the ball knocked loose.

On the third day, New York tried to move toward some semblance of normality, but too often it seemed to fail.

Matar's mother, Nabila Abu Halima, said she had been shot through the arm when she tried to move toward her son.

Try working toward a savings of six to 12 months of living expenses a little bit at a time.