Tried means: Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable. Related words include tested or proved. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Tried in practice.
Tried meaning
- Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable.
- Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt.
Example sentences (20)
About 250 Hindu Americans unsuccessfully tried to submit a petition to State Sen. Aisha Wahab, the sponsor of the bill.
According to the prosecutor, Ciarla put the gun behind the victim’s head and cocked the gun when he tried to walk away.
A dental supply company has a cybersquatting dispute in which it tried to grab the valuable domain painless.
According to O’Boyle, a friend who was with the victim tried to intervene by pushing away the suspect.
Aerial footage showed the victim holding on for dear life next to a concrete wall as crews tried to rescue him from the raging river.
We were now the Spartans and we wore burgundy and gold and we sang a new Alma mater and we tried — oh how we tried.
Orton tried to take advantage of that but was favoring his knee, and it hindered him as he tried to deliver a DDT.
When carjackers tried to steal her whip, she tried to fight them off but then remembered a fun fact about her car.
I tried, really tried, to understand all this too, until Tonse hired Chikumbutso Mtumodzi as director of information.
Have you ever tried cooking with Halloween candy?: I don’t think I have ever tried anything with candy, actually.
Benider then tried to put the Rams on top, but he had a shot blocked, then Benider tried again and Flynn made the save.
In 1948, the right of peers to be tried in such special courts was abolished; now, they are tried in the regular courts.
A deported man caught at Holyhead had tried to get into the UK three times, a court heard.
I told him I had already tried it a few times, because I had, but he said I had not really, really tried yet.
According to CBS News, within 15 seconds of getting out of their car, officers shot Adams in the back as he tried to escape between two cars.
The campus police officer was called, and when he tried to speak with the student, a 15-year-old girl, she tried to leave.
A departure from the studio's tried-and-tested formula, stars Rosalie Chiang as Mei Lee.
She tried to educate the kids, and she tried also to do the difficult work of helping the men for issues or for their jobs.
Guns vs bow and arrows was tried in the US a very long time ago, it was tried in Japan during the Samurai era and it failed too.
Accepting that its filling could well be beef or even lamb these days - what sacrilege - there is a tried and tested formula for the successful pie.
Common combinations with tried
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tried to 186×
- he tried 28×
- and tried 19×
- they tried 18×
- have tried 16×
- had tried 15×
- she tried 11×
- who tried 9×
- tried and 8×
- really tried 6×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word tried. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.