Sentence examples for years trying to explain from inspiring English sources

Mr. McLaren spent much of the last 30 years trying to explain punk.

scores than the previous one — he has spent more than 25 years trying to explain why.

Gilbert Kaplan has this "relationship" with Gustav Mahler that he has spent 34 years trying to explain.

As more Americans have come to accept same-sex marriage, Mr. Clinton has spent the intervening years trying to explain and distance himself from the law.

"She just kind of blossomed," Bernie said of those first few years, trying to explain why the notoriously cranky widow behaved so differently with him.

Mr. Crooke has spent the past few years trying to explain that to suspicious Westerners, in a stream of articles, speeches and conferences.

Mr. Markopolos is the former investment officer with Rampart Investment Management in Boston who, for nine years, tried to explain to the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernard L. Madoff couldn't be anything other than a fraud.

Publicly, American Muslims have spent the year trying to explain their faith and disassociate it from terrorism.

COMMENTATORS on both sides of the Atlantic have spent the last year trying to explain Germany's halting, confounding approach to the euro crisis.

"We've been diligent in our recruiting and have stumbled into some special players," said Bentley's coach of 17 years, Jay Lawson, trying to explain the Falcons' streak.

Seamus Heaney was sipping bourbon during a Boston snowstorm 30 years ago, trying to explain his poetry as an escape from a terrible fear of silence that always haunted him.