Sentence examples for valiant try from inspiring English sources

We think it was a valiant try, but sometimes these things just don't work out".

The Jets disintegrated late, and in the end they were simply beaten by a superior opponent, despite what was a valiant try.

Steve Politi of The Star-Ledger makes a valiant try in arguing that people are overreacting about the impact of Tim Tebow's arrival in New York, writing that "a lot of people not from around here" are telling us "how this experience is going to completely rock our world, as if this is some kind of distant sports outpost".

This little one makes a valiant try to keep eyes open for some yummy snacks.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote: "Tyler, a true beauty, gives the role a valiant try, but her range is too limited to play this amalgam of female perfection".

And here we are, quite valiant, trying to live down our original sin--and liking it.

Twice Newcastle's valiant try-line defence won penalties and on the other two occasions Quins knocked on.

Hardy made a valiant attempt to try and salvage the situation, but Hawley was long gone.

The Duke of the Abruzzi "made" K2 Italian with a valiant 1909 try.

Still, despite these errors, Miller and the Times were valiant in trying to uphold an important principle, which is that journalists sometimes require anonymous sources to dig up information, and if we cannot pledge that we will protect their anonymity we will deprive readers of vital information.

In an article for the Guardian, Smith, a former Labour cabinet minister, said: "In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces".