essayed in a sentence

1. Donald essayed a smile

2. Richard Brome also essayed the form, but with less success.

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5. In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time.

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7. His name, or rather a plaintive voice which essayed to pronounce his name, reached him.

8. The lovely Rachel McAdams essayed the role of Allie in The Notebook and stole our hearts.

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10. Thus by measures which appealed to the imagination, Rome essayed to control the consciences of men.

11. Vidya Balan has quite a scintillating image since she essayed the role of Silk in The Dirty Picture.

12. Another attempt to make Emma Goldman impossible was essayed by the Federal authorities at Washington.

13. First, I have essayed to find in general the principles, or first causes of all that is or can be in the world.

14. Martin was not made use of to sickness, and when Maria and her small girl left him, he essayed to get up and dress.

15. No imaginable strength of any single man would have sufficed to carry out a hundredth part of what Leonardo essayed.

16. Then they all knew who 'twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed.

17. I essayed the "straight drama" once or twice, and cannot say that my efforts in that direction were very highly appreciated.

18. I cite this only as an example, since the modifications that might be essayed would be evidently susceptible of infinite variation.

19. Fleeing from all human beings he essayed to throw himself from the highest roof of the priests’ house without being able to execute his design.

20. The first time His Holiness essayed a move in this direction was in August of last year, when Francis decided to change point 2267 of the Catechism.