6 sentences with 'tries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tries and other words derived from it.
• « Bargaining: the dying person tries to make a deal with death, makes promises, spends long periods of introspection and begins to glimpse the threshold. »
• « Thus, the moth "illuminated" by the ultrasound beam tries to move away long before it appears as a target in the bat's brain. To counteract this liveliness of the moths, the bats have developed the hesitant trajectory, criss-crossed by capricious curves, untimely detours and incalculable removals. »
• « Not only that, but the cuckoo chick, which usually hatches first, immediately tries to push the other eggs or other chicks out of the nest, and usually succeeds. »
• « "She always tries to be a mother, first and foremost," says Emma, now 25, who aspires to be an actress. »
• « It was the Greeks who devised history in the same sense in which the term is used today, i.e. a story (a narrative) based on historical facts that tries to explain what happened and why it happened the way it did. »