How to Use trying in a Sentence

trying

adjective

• He can be very trying at times.
• They have been through some trying times together.
• Mornings this past year may have been the most trying hours for them.
  — Andrew Krammer, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2019
• Our clients often come to us at the most trying times in their lives.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 9 June 2018
• But the O’Connors have been there through all the most trying times.
  — Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• But my mom and younger sister were always there for me through the trying times.
  — By Sara Beane, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
• The past year and few months have been the most difficult and trying time of my life.
  — Glamour, 24 Jan. 2018
• It's been a trying time, full of aches, pains, and loneliness.
  — Freep.com, 22 Mar. 2020
• The pandemic has been a trying time for parents with kids of all ages.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The pandemic made a somber chapter in their lives even more trying.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
• Post All-Star will be the most trying time for the Kings, though.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
• Even the snow lover might embrace this prediction of less trying times ahead.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• This season was his first as a head coach, and his debut came in trying circumstances.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2018
• Nolan's sentencing on Friday put an end to a very trying case.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2018
• For many people with eczema, wintertime can be the most trying season.
  — Emilia Benton, SELF, 5 Dec. 2022
• This was, by all accounts, the most trying run of James’ last four years in Cleveland.
  — Ben Ladner, SI.com, 10 June 2018
• The past year has been a trying time for the troubled juvenile justice agency.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 19 May 2018
• For the rest of us, The Mule is a much more trying experience.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 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
• Their service reflects the best of humanity in the most trying of times.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• The past three months have been a trying time for Kardashian and Thompson.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2018
• His family and Christian faith have been his bedrock throughout the most trying of times.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
• This is my fourth season in this job, and each has been crazy and beautiful and trying and memorable in its own right.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• In this trying time, China's state media has tried to turn these lemons into lemonade.
  — Anna Fifield, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
• His claims come amid a trying time for the former partners of ten years, who have both hired lawyers to discuss custody of their daughter.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2019
• But perhaps his most trying day on set was during the audition process as he screen tested with Clark.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• Shaquille Leonard has been through the most trying season of his NFL career.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Dec. 2022