Sentence examples for try and divine from inspiring English sources

In the Bronx, jurors sifted through all of the evidence over and over, to try and divine whether the defendant in their case knew that an acquaintance of his — the man who killed the officer — was carrying a gun.

One can try and divine what the university's goals are, but with little success.

If you can, try and divine some using, you guessed it, bones.

Harry and Dumbledore magically revisit the past and try to divine Voldemort's devilish schemes by understanding his past.

There, geologists working for the Italian oil company Eni don 3-D glasses to contemplate fluorescent images of underground geological formations and try to divine which might be worth tens of millions of dollars in exploratory drilling.

So I'm going to give Alan Ehrenhalt's theory another shot, and try to divine the political future by looking at what drives people to run for, and stay in, office.

They want to be there, to hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" echoing out of the park, to hear the names of the batters somberly intoned by Bob Sheppard, the Yankees' public address announcer, and to try to divine from the roars and silences of the crowd what is going on behind that beige wall that is about as far away as a throw to first base.

The natural world is a wonderful, complex thing, and scientists try to divine its little secrets.

The questions have been heard a lot, in one form or another, during Milan's fashion week, as retailers and journalists try to divine what in the fashion business is called the direction for spring.

And choosing is work: attending open houses, comparing curricula, trading gossip and trying to divine — from test scores and demographic data and other numbers — which schools might work.

Only gods and poets should try to divine weather conditions.