Sentence examples for trying to get served from inspiring English sources

Rice, a retired science teacher, was a 19-year-old Virginia Union student when she and others were arrested for trying to get served at the lunch counter and tea room of the downtown Richmond department store.

All the usual suspects from a London pub are here, from the desperate booze hound staggering around trying to get served, to the yobbish football fans, threateningly intense local, and the tourists out for that authentic London experience.

Don't be put off by her ice maiden face, or the fact that her back is turned to you, or that she has been trying to get served for five minutes already and doesn't want to break her gaze with the barman: smile at her. Introduce yourself.

Don't be put off by her ice-maiden face, or the fact that her back is turned to you, or that she has been trying to get served for five minutes already and doesn't want to break her gaze with the barman: Smile at her. Introduce yourself.

Every preppie I ever knew went to "21" on AWOL weekends in New York and tried to get served at the bar.

It's time the government stopped trying to entrap landlords by hiring 15 and 16-year-olds to try to get served.

Teachers could go home or try to get served in a timely manner at one of the three restaurants in the town.

Bored, they'd bought ciders, taken the ferry to west Cowes and then tried to get served at a couple of pubs, underage, before giving up and going their separate ways on the high street.

Bored, they'd bought ciders, taken the ferry to west Cowes, and then tried to get served at a couple of pubs, underage, before giving up and going their separate ways on the high street.

I tried to get help again.

Now imagine you are trying to get a serving of broccoli into a child who has locked his jaw.