Sentence examples for trying at once from inspiring English sources

His eyes are tightly closed and he is swaying back and forth to the beat, trying at once to hear what is right and wrong about the music.

"Throwdown" pits him against a nonprofessional chili or burger maker whose yard or home Mr. Flay visits and whose work he is trying at once to replicate and to trump.

Are you fired up, ready to go?" After a rocky August, Mr Obama has been forced to push back, trying at once to rebut "lies" from his foes, including the claim that "death panels" will decide when the elderly should die, and to persuade ordinary Americans that doing nothing is not an option, and leaving so many people uninsured is immoral.

Frankly, what good tactician wouldn't be looking for a wedge to potential givebacks when "a partner and friend" like America is trying at once to look tough on Afghanistan, terrorism and China while being an advocate of a world without nuclear weapons?

Even without a correction, once the economy turns and hiring resumes, nearly 18 million people are likely to be vying for jobs, as if they were all trying at once to jam themselves through a door too narrow to accommodate more than a few.

Mr. Demme's movie tries at once to instill paranoia and to analyze it.

The Mets, for their part, have tried at once to control all the Wheeler talk and to stoke it.

Isabelle, for her part, accepts plum work assignments and tries at once to please her boss and to imitate her.