All 7 Uses
endeavor
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- She was dragging a chair in and out of her room, and at intervals objecting to the crying of a baby, which a nurse in the adjoining cottage was endeavoring to put to sleep.†
Chpt 9 *endeavoring = trying or attempting
- He endeavored, in a general way, to express a particular disapproval, and only succeeded in arousing the ire and opposition of his father-in-law.†
Chpt 23endeavored = tried or attempted
- He meant to stop at the wedding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to atone somewhat for Edna's incomprehensible action.†
Chpt 24
- The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.†
Chpt 25endeavored = tried or attempted
- She was endeavoring to heat a pot of chocolate on the stove.†
Chpt 26endeavoring = trying or attempting
- She was endeavoring to adjust the bunch of violets which had become loose from its fastening in her hair.†
Chpt 26
- Edna did not protest or endeavor to justify herself.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)