Sample Sentences for
endeavor
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    She has endeavored in vain to shift public opinion on the matter.
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    But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.  (source)
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    Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.  (source)
    endeavor = try or attempt
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    I saw the justice of his remark, ... and determined to endeavor at improvement.  (source)
    endeavor = try or attempt
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    It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.  (source)
    endeavour = attempt
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
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    I took a good look at the man and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance.  (source)
    endeavoured = tried or attempted
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
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    It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess.  (source)
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    Kat surprises Tjaden endeavouring with perfect equanimity to knock the driving-band off a dud.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
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    And grown-uply endeavoring not to giggle—but that was impossible!†  (source)
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    The winning team in Washington gets to take home that huge golden trophy, they receive a guest appearance on Good Morning America, and their school will receive a check for two thousand dollars to be used for academic endeavors!†  (source)
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    Your real task, you see, will be to assist in my scientific endeavours.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
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    and with force to resist him, when he with force endeavoureth to correct them?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She endeavoreth" in older English, today we say "She endeavors."
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    These I gave him from time to time, but endeavor'd rather to discourage his proceeding.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endeavoured in British English and endeavored in American English.
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