tried

Yost tried to escape to the house patio, but was shot in the head.

If science tried to be efficient, if it refused to replicate, we would end up only with observations and correlations.

In the letter, he described how, in the wake of Miss Edwards's loss, he has tried to warn future generations of the consequences of gang culture to "make sure Elle's murder was not to be in vain".

Janey Rountree, the executive director of UCLA’s California Policy Lab and an advisor on the measure, has tried to address that problem by developing a data-driven strategy to identify people at risk of becoming homeless.

I had to defeat him three times in federal court to keep my press pass, which his administration tried to take away.