Sentence examples for try to be sensible from inspiring English sources

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It's not doctor's orders and I'm not sure that it makes an awful lot of difference to my health, but I try to be sensible.

I have a sweet tooth, but I try to be sensible about that.

I try to be sensible with a goal in mind that isn't losing weight.

(Interviewee 20) "I stopped putting my glasses on [when grocery shopping] because I thought well if I can't buy anything, I'll just try to be sensible".

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As Woody saw him, Bujak was trying to be sensible.

Trying to be sensible and good and professional in a way I don't now.

Bono said: "It's just some smart people we have working for us trying to be sensible about the way we're taxed.

It is nearly four years since U2's headline gig at Glastonbury, where activists clashed with security after unfurling a banner asking "U pay tax 2?" However, the band's lead singer, Bono, 55, remains unrepentant, and has defended its convoluted financial arrangements as "just some smart people we have … trying to be sensible about the way we're taxed".

So we tried to be sensible: we gathered in our thousands to make the pragmatic case against being murdered as we sleep, even though being sensible in the face of the catastrophe has never done much good.

"I'm going to try to be very realistic and sensible and serious about the kinds of tradeoffs that we have to consider when we're making decisions about protecting ourselves".

Apparently, some time before this incident, Neel's mother, Alice Concross Hartley, had asked her if she couldn't try to be a bit more sensible, a bit more like her sister, Lillian.

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