Sample sentences for ENDEAVOR - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

to attempt; or a project or activity attempted

I endeavored to get both sides to agree to a compromise.

endeavored = tried or attempted

I will endeavor to finish by Friday.

endeavor = try or attempt

It is a worthwhile endeavor.
She has endeavored in vain to shift public opinion on the matter.
I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family,
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

endeavour = try

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.)

I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

endeavouring = trying

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)

... a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

endeavouring = trying

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

endeavor = try or attempt

...endeavoured to appreciate or understand what was taking place.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

She said nothing; and Eleanor, endeavouring to collect herself and speak with firmness, but with eyes still cast down, soon went on.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey

endeavouring = trying or attempting

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)

Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone, and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

endeavour = project (attempting to do something else)

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.)

"No, I thank you," she replied, endeavouring to recover herself.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

endeavouring = trying or attempting

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)

She sometimes endeavoured for a few minutes to read; but the book was soon thrown aside,
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

While I have been endeavouring to fill her mind with maxims of prudence, you have been provoking her to reject them.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones

endeavouring = trying or attempting

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)

I saw the justice of his remark, ... and determined to endeavor at improvement.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

endeavor = try or attempt

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.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

endeavoured = tried or attempted

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)

He endeavours to fill me with hope and talks as if life were a possession which he valued.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

endeavours = attempts

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.)

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