Sentence examples for try and resist from inspiring English sources

I think I try and resist writing about these periods.

And just try and resist the old joke that Hank tells about the cannibal who ate the clown.

Weary and bitter, he kicks open the door, strides into the room and, to the aghast congregation of mourners awaiting spiritual consolation, he bellows, "Who's next?" That question now has a timely, uneasy resonance, as we try and resist the morbid guessing game of which famous and powerful man will follow Weinstein, Spacey, and others in falling from grace.

I keep seeing commuters with their heads buried in The Girl on the Train, so I'm intrigued to see what all the fuss is about, and I'll try and resist the temptation to revisit old favourite Harry Potter, and perhaps try The Grisha Trilogy [Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising] by Leigh Bardugo instead.

"But we'll try and resist all offers that come our way".

"Do not try and resist me," Lovejoy whispers.

South Africa, coming off a heavy defeat against England last weekend seemed intent from the outset to register an emphatic win, opening with Bryan Habana's opening try and resisting repeated attempts at goal.

Like Americans after Sept. 11, Russians are trying to rebuild and resist fear and depression.

Many participants described the experience of having an ultrasound as one of trying to navigate and resist a rigid sociotechnical "script" (Akrich 1994) that was incompatible with their own experiences of pregnancy: I purposely chose not to look... it was very much like I'm not looking.

Artists will continue to plumb the depths of their own peculiarities and try to resist machine-driven consciousness.

*Have the child extend arms forward at a 45-degree angle, pointing thumbs down, and try to resist the examiner's downward pressure on the forearms.