endeavoring

Example Sentences

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Last year, a senior royal source said Buckingham Palace had not done enough on diversity, although it has been endeavouring to boost the number of staff from ethnic minorities.

From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2022

The committee is endeavouring to work chronologically through the drawing up of the complaints procedure, the application to the case of Mr Salmond, and then the costly debacle of the judicial review.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2020

Yet inventors have been endeavouring to build exactly such devices—and the history of attempts to create these artificial bards is longer than you might think.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

The compromised Melfi aside, there are no regular representatives of dogged virtue in The Sopranos, no good cop endeavouring to bring down the bad man.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2017

“Merely to the illustration of your character,” said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen