How to Use trying in a Sentence

trying

adjective
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  • But the O’Connors have been there through all the most trying times.
    — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Post All-Star will be the most trying time for the Kings, though.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Sold out and there's still like 100 more trying to get in.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 June 2017
  • Our clients often come to us at the most trying times in their lives.
    — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 9 June 2018
  • The past year has been a trying time for the Brown family.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The past year and few months have been the most difficult and trying time of my life.
    — Glamour, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The back half of the evening became more trying, in part because: three hours.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Mornings this past year may have been the most trying hours for them.
    — Andrew Krammer, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2019
  • For the rest of us, The Mule is a much more trying experience.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The road is a little more trying than being in the studio.
    — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 14 July 2017
  • The goal now is to keep adding games to the most trying season in Spurs history.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2021
  • But my mom and younger sister were always there for me through the trying times.
    — By Sara Beane, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
  • This was, by all accounts, the most trying run of James’ last four years in Cleveland.
    — Ben Ladner, SI.com, 10 June 2018
  • For Queen Elizabeth, the 70th year of her record-breaking reign has been one of the most trying of her life.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • It's been a trying time, full of aches, pains, and loneliness.
    — Freep.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Shaquille Leonard has been through the most trying season of his NFL career.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Pulling off the challenge, the lyrics to the children’s song proved to be the more trying aspect, with Key repeating the same lines.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The pandemic has been a trying time for parents with kids of all ages.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • And through some really dark and trying times, this team has been a beacon of hope for a lot.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The past three months have been a trying time for Kardashian and Thompson.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2018
  • The next three years were a trying time for many MNCs doing business in India.
    — Rohini Krishnamurthy, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Do this for all of us who have suffered through a sick child and a trying time where we perhaps were lost in our own thoughts.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • Now that the save-the-dates have gone out, a substantial number of their guests are pregnant or trying and won’t go.
    — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 8 May 2017
  • The pandemic made a somber chapter in their lives even more trying.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Even the snow lover might embrace this prediction of less trying times ahead.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Isherwood wrote to Bachardy in 1963, during one of their most trying years.
    — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • His family and Christian faith have been his bedrock throughout the most trying of times.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
  • Their service reflects the best of humanity in the most trying of times.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Our thoughts are with Antoni Porowski at this trying time.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2019
  • But under the most trying circumstances, losing one’s empathy is also very human.
    — Hazlitt, 13 Dec. 2022

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