Sentence examples for trying to compensate from inspiring English sources

"I was trying to compensate".

So now we are trying to compensate.

And the Venetians were nothing if not inventive in trying to compensate for this development.

A slicked-up entrepreneur is inevitably a salesman trying to compensate for an inferior product.

Was he, he wonders, trying to compensate for the insecurities and humiliations of his childhood?

She believes he lacks glamour, and she is trying to compensate.

Sinatra spent much of the rest of his life trying to compensate for not serving.

"Some people might have said he was trying to compensate – I think he was evolving".

They are trying to compensate for time missed during training camp and the lockout, and each has acknowledged his culpability.

Banks are trying to compensate for these expected losses by charging more for loans and cutting off delinquent borrowers.

When he felt himself trying to compensate with his shoulder in August 2002, he shut himself down.