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Meaning of essayed in English
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- give something your best shot idiom
- go after someone
- go all out idiom
- go down swinging/fighting idiom
- go for someone
- shoot for the moon idiom
- shoot the works idiom
- smarten (someone/something) up
- smarten up your act idiom
- square the circle idiom
Examples of essayed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
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Use "essayed" in a sentence
Essayed example sentences.
1. Harry was elated on account of those two particular locales they had essayed during their journey merely for their very formidable access and the determination which one must conjure to tour them
2. He hung up, looked at his friends and essayed a smile
3. As they tramped along Trask essayed a cautious question
4. him, and essayed to propagate it by the sword, with such
5. If Jannes or Jambres had essayed similar comments, they would soon have shrunk from the conflict, and their 'folly would have been made manifest to all men
6. One of the bolder ones, seeing the expression on the Arch-astronomer's face, raised an arm tremulously and essayed a hasty thunderbolt
7. As for Albert and Franz, they essayed not to escape from their ciceronian tyrants; and, indeed, it would have been so much the more difficult to break their bondage, as the guides alone are permitted to visit these monuments with torches in their hands
8. " Franz essayed to smile
9. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards
10. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the range of his vision,—laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,—whose outlines escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization
11. The world’s greatest actor and the movies’ love goddess join forces to bring Terence Rattigan’s stage play The Sleeping Prince to the screen, with Olivier repeating his stage role and Monroe playing the role essayed by Olivier’s then wife, Vivien Leigh
12. It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task
13. Why, then, this hesitancy! Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him
14. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed
15. Change of position had essayed ,
16. Remembering how Woloda had been wont to kiss his inamorata’s purse last year, I essayed to do the same thing now; and really, when alone in my room in the evenings and engaged in dreaming as I looked at a flower or occasionally pressed it to my lips, I would feel a certain pleasantly lachrymose mood steal over me, and remain genuinely in love (or suppose myself to be so) for at least several days
17. Frank Keenan essayed so unsuccessfully at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York last season
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For example: She essayed to climb the treacherous mountain peak. The author essayed to capture the essence of human emotions in her novel. In these sentences, “essayed” is used to convey the notion of making an attempt or putting forth an effort. 2. Noun: While less common, “essayed” can also function as a noun.
ESSAYED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of essay 2. to try to do something: . Learn more.
2. He hung up, looked at his friends and essayed a smile. 3. As they tramped along Trask essayed a cautious question. 5. If Jannes or Jambres had essayed similar comments, they would soon have shrunk from the conflict, and their 'folly would have been made manifest to all men. 6. One of the bolder ones, seeing the expression on the Arch ...