with might and main
Example Sentences
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What a paradox: This city, and the feds, are now trying with might and main to find housing for its veterans — in effect to re-create a barracks that thousands of veterans had called home.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming victory, and then offering the hand of friendship to the vanquished.
From Time Magazine Archive
And who should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is played with might and main by a typical stock company group, unknown to Broadway, who know how to send their lines booming across the footlights as if kicking a field goal.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw a busy potter by the way Kneading with might and main a lump of clay; And, lo! the clay cried, �Use me gently, pray; I was a man myself but yesterday!�
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
