Sentence examples for trying pretty hard from inspiring English sources

It is trying pretty hard for its effects.

"But you have to be trying pretty hard not to be looking, to be honest," he added.

You'd have to be trying pretty hard not to guess the inevitable "twist" regarding the killer's identity, but there's still plenty of potential for camp creepiness which Quarantine director John Erick Dowdle signally fails to exploit.

A few years ago I was trying pretty hard to cross Nicholson street Carlton and saw Ray Gabelich drive by in a most rusty chip and dim sim truck at a tremendous rate of kilometres indeed.

Looks like Vogue is trying pretty hard to look cool here.

"We're trying pretty hard, aren't we?

However much she tries to avoid it — and she will probably try pretty hard — she will be regarded as something of a celebrity.

Coupled with the distinctly WALL-E-style nature of Cruise's job, Oblivion would have to try pretty hard to jam in any more cliches.

However hard Ramos tried -- and he tried pretty hard, handballing and kicking and pushing and protesting and flying in - Pérez Montero stubbornly, and comically, refused to pull out the card.

However hard Ramos tried – and he tried pretty hard, handballing and kicking and pushing and protesting and flying in, getting wilder with every one, a mental soundtrack of cymbal crashes accompanying each tackle – Montero stubbornly, and comically, refused to pull out the card.

Juve and Arsenal are expected to go head-to-head in the fight to sign Wolfsburg's 23-year-old ace Julian Draxler – who tried pretty hard to engineer a move in the summer but failed, and may still have itchy feet – but the Wolfsburg director Klaus Allofs has warned that "there is absolutely no reason to even talk about Julian leaving in January".