Meaning of try as one may | Babel Free

Definitions

However hard one tries; despite one's best efforts.

Examples

“It was an extraordinary thing that, try as we might, we could not finish our pipes at the same time.”

“'It could afford to be materialistic,' said Birkin, 'because it had the power to be something other--which we haven't. We are materialistic because we haven't the power to be anything else--try as we may, we can't bring off anything but materialism: mechanism, the very soul of materialism.'”

“They didn't persist and quickly drove off, as Sam and Tom tried to ignore them and dismiss the entire experience. But try as they may, they weren't able to forget.”

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