(n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gotti Jr's sister, Victoria Gotti, has been the star of the TV series Growing Up Gotti, which endeavoured to show the trials and tribulations of life bearing the infamous Gotti name.
(2) After many trials and tribulations, this treatment modality has experienced a resurgence of interest in recent years.
(3) The very troubles and tribulations of the week will be cited as evidence of how his heroic deal-making abilities can overcome any hurdle, even the rightwing House Freedom Caucus – though another battle will loom in the Senate.
(4) I’ll make sure they stay interested.” Trump’s post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: “ Meltdown ”.
(5) His life became a tribulation, and a survival of sorts – an industrial accident working at an abattoir in Denmark, then finding a wife – "I woke up one morning and I was married" – and having three children.
(6) We'll be keeping track of their trials, tribulations and, hopefully, their triumphs.
(7) Guy Anderson, a defence analyst at IHS Jane's, said: "A merger between BAE and EADS is unlikely and wouldn't happen without a lot of trials and tribulations.
(8) There is little doubt that the Syrian government has, through various means, attempted to inflame the Lebanese theatre as a means of distracting attention from its own tribulations, and reminding all of its old game as the indispensable troublemaker and problem-solver : "If you want a stable Lebanon, you need the Assad regime."
(9) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding In this third instalment of the diaries , our hapless hapless heroine continues to agonise over the tribulations of modern life large and small, from single parenthood and dating in the age of social media to the perils of the skinny jean.
(10) Even then, I was lucky enough to avoid the tribulations faced far too often by my friend Emma, manager of the BrewDog bar in Camden.
(11) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(12) A lot of trials and tribulations led to this, people think everyone has no reason.
(13) Tellingly, the book's title as a work in progress was Tribulation.
(14) Their trials and tribulations should encourage future generations of cardiac surgeons to proceed with further developments in this field.
(15) Sir Alex Ferguson has sprung to the defence of Louis van Gaal and urged fans to be patient during Manchester United’s current tribulations.
(16) These traits were well depicted in Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, which narrates the events surrounding Andreotti's trials and tribulations of 1991-92.
(17) The show, which revolves around twentysomethings finding their way in New York, presumes sympathy for the tribulations of college-educated young women with generous parents funding their identity crises.
(18) Weeks of trials and tribulations had opened my eyes to a profession I was not strong enough to be part of.
(19) Dr Crippin Description: "The trials and tribulations, the pleasures and pitfalls of family medicine in the modern British National Health Service."
(20) We present four brain tumor cases with his unpublished sketches and direct quotations to illustrate both the trials and tribulations of those times and Cushing's innate surgical genius.
Try
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
(v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
(v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
(v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
(v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.
(v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
(v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
(v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.
(v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.
(v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
(v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
(v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try!
(n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
(n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
(v. t.) Refined; select; excellent; choice.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be nice if it was more ... but I am trying."
(2) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(6) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(7) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(8) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(9) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(10) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(11) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(12) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
(13) A complex of vitamins exerting a protective action on the system of coenzymic acetylation in the body have been tried.
(14) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
(15) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(16) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(17) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(19) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(20) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.