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Example sentences for "endeavors"

Lexicographically close words:
endearments; endears; endeavor; endeavored; endeavoring; endeavour; endeavoured; endeavoureth; endeavouring; endeavours
  1. One of man's noblest endeavors is to beautify.

  2. Here he continued his endeavors to advance the school interests, which he succeeded in placing in an admirable condition.

  3. Yea, though they should loose their lives in this action, yet might they have comforte in the same, and their endeavors would be honourable.

  4. In fact, as we have already seen, the earnest endeavors of the inquisitors were directed much more to obtaining conversions with confiscations and betrayal of friends than to provoking martyrdoms.

  5. If he hears of a Bible, in any part of the world, different in any respect from those he owns, he at once endeavors to obtain it, no matter how difficult the undertaking, or how much it may cost.

  6. He endeavors to carry out certain ideas which seem to him to have been overlooked by society to its great disadvantage.

  7. With the aid of the mouth and hand mirror he shows the condition to the patient, and, taking up an excavator, endeavors to pass it down between the tooth and gum, on the labial surface.

  8. Lord Grey and Lord Grenville were far from the presumption of believing that their humble endeavors for the execution of so difficult a task might not be susceptible of many and great amendments.

  9. What the nature of my endeavors were at that time, I have the written testimonies of Mr. Fox and the Duke of Portland.

  10. I was as one who still retains the feeling Of a forgotten dream, and who endeavors In vain to bring it back into his mind, When I this invitation heard, deserving Of so much gratitude, it never fades Out of the book that chronicles the past.

  11. Ages of fruitless endeavors have at length brought us to a knowledge of this principle of intercommunication with them.

  12. Be it further Resolved by this meeting, that we will use our utmost endeavors to carry into effect the object contained in the preamble and resolutions passed on Wednesday, the 29th, as agreed to by the Mormons.

  13. Again the moon endeavors to depart in a straight line, but the attraction is felt again, and brings near to us our unfaithful satellite.

  14. Mr. Jarndyce, stopping again, and making several absent endeavors to put his candlestick in his pocket.

  15. Napoleon was indefatigable in his endeavors to reorganize in the Tuileries the splendors of a court.

  16. Arnold's purpose in the essay is to define the cultured man as one who endeavors to make beauty and intelligence prevail everywhere.

  17. Footnote 109: The remainder of the essay endeavors to meet the charge of materialism.

  18. He had used great energy in his endeavors to get employed again, and just before we made his acquaintance, "waiting for the post," had received a promise that his services should be remembered.

  19. At that time it seemed that one of the many endeavors to establish a strict German Confederation had succeeded; and it became an object to attach Holstein to this Confederation, in order to gain the command of the Baltic.

  20. After dinner he is free to approach the lady of his thoughts, but he endeavors in vain to tell from her face what answer he will receive, what time and meditation may have done or undone for him.

  21. Throughout that evening he does not venture to approach her again, and he endeavors to throw himself with some show of warmth into a flirtation with Nina Curzon.

  22. He also supplies the Swedish version of the difficulties with the Dutch and English, and recites the several endeavors of Sweden either to recover possession of her colony or to obtain satisfactory compensation for her loss of it.

  23. Bolton, in his West Chester County (1848), endeavors by a map to place the Indian tribes as they occupied the territory bordering the southern parts of the Hudson.

  24. But Phædria has not neglected to use his endeavors in your behalf.

  25. Madame Dacier observes on this passage: “Terence here, with reason, endeavors to make the most of a circumstance peculiar to his Play.

  26. But if I had at that period slighted the writer, and had wished to use my endeavors in discouraging him, so that he might live a life of idleness rather than of study, I might have easily discouraged him from writing others.

  27. The delay of Mysis, on seeing the emotion of Pamphilus, is very natural; and her artful endeavors to interest Pamphilus on behalf of her mistress, are rather marks of her attention than neglect.

  28. We therefore resolve, at all times, to use our utmost endeavors for the manumission of our slaves in this Colony, upon the most safe and equitable footing for the masters and themselves.

  29. Now, as one of your own number, we appeal to you to join us in our patriotic endeavors to rescue the generous soil of the South from the usurped and desolating control of these political vampires.

  30. And among the hymns are many which have helped to nourish the sunny endeavors of a countless host.

  31. After a quarter of an hour of almost superhuman exertion, his strength gave way, the ebony, which he had succeeded in bending even farther than Darius, flew back and set all his further endeavors at nought.

  32. A number of the brilliant officers of this division were necessarily present at the coronation ceremony when the polonaise form originated, and these with their exploits Chopin endeavors to introduce by means of this singular passage.

  33. Once more the devil endeavors to destroy the peace which seems about to spread throughout the district.

  34. Towards sunset we had nearly reached the bay of Soung, when we were met by the opposing tide, which frustrated all our endeavors to reach it, and I was compelled to anchor, lest we should again be swept to sea.

  35. He stops, he fixes a penetrating look on the KING, who endeavors to return his glance; but he looks on the ground, embarrassed and confused.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.