tried's Usage Examples:

In foreign affairs, the major developments were the acquisition of the gigantic Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, an embargo against trade with both Great Britain and France, and worsening relations with Britain as the United States tried to remain neutral in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars that engulfed Europe.

This region formed a part of the Kʼicheʼ kingdom, and a Kʼicheʼ army tried unsuccessfully to prevent the Spanish from crossing the river.

Despot Đurađ himself went below Golubac and promised Jeremija forgiveness, and tried in every way to win back the city; not only did Jeremija decline, but he also attacked the despot's entourage which had tried to enter the city gates.

Although this reversal procedure has been tried only on non-human primates, it has been repeatedly successfully.

The statutes tried to prevent this middle nation, which was neither true English nor Irish, by reasserting English culture among the English settlers.

I tried to get out of the picture.

When I found out that he was in Japan, I invited him back to my hotel room and tried to convince him, for six hours, to come work with me.

On 9 February 1792, he succeeded in having a law passed confiscating the possessions of the émigrés, and tried to arrange the deportation.

time, Russia was engaged in the Great Northern War and the Tsar tried to westernize Russia and establish a modern navy.

the arrival of piston metal instruments, when the communities tried to imitate the military bands.

He tried to persuade Constance to remarry, but she did not accept his candidates.

In his conclusion Jane wrote, Michael Winner's The Sentinel is a gleefully perverse slice of seventies horror that makes no qualms about taking things in a few entirely unexpected directions while still sticking to some tried and true genre conventions.

After the 1943 season, Smith tried to stay off his feet as much as possible and soaked his feet each night in solutions prepared by the Buffalo trainer.

Synonyms:

tested, dependable, tried and true, time-tested, reliable,

Antonyms:

unsteady, unsound, untrustworthy, unreliable, undependable,