Sentence examples for were tries from inspiring English sources

There was passion, there was atmosphere, there were tries and fisticuffs.

Goode's penalty on the stroke of half-time was a consolation, as were tries in the final quarter by Duncan Taylor and Kelly Brown.

In the pool match with Tonga in Leicester, watched by an ebullient Diego Maradona, there were as many fumbles as there were tries.

There were tries for all three members of the back row, open-side flanker Mercer, who was captaining Bath for the first time, debutant Nick Koster and academy graduate Ovens.

Many ingenious ideas were tried.

People were trying to understand.

Numerous diverse formulations were tried.

Different linkers such as -OCH2-, -SCH2-, -OCH2CH2-, -OCH2CH2O-, -OCH2CH2CH2O- were tried.

Various cytotoxic drugs were tried in rats.

"We were trying too hard.

"We were trying really hard".