At last he stopped and began to scrub his forehead against the rough bark of a tree, endeavoring to remove the bandage.
“I was kind of worried about you,” Bruce said, endeavoring to speak naturally.
He spread false reports among the tribes that the military authorities were endeavoring to make the natives slaves.
The men were endeavoring to reset the switch for the main line contact.
One life, one love, is the Christian idea, and into this sluice or mold it has been endeavoring to compress the whole world.
As these could not be our men, we knew the enemy were endeavoring to surround the detachment.
Many a hero has perished in endeavoring to solve the Sphinx-like riddle of northern lands and seas.
He was endeavoring to be natural, and was failing wretchedly.
Meantime, a joint committee of conference was endeavoring to reconcile the differences between the House and the Senate.
I was endeavoring to frame a reply when the renegade answered for me.
early 15c., "pains taken to attain an object," literally "in duty," from phrase put (oneself) in dever "make it one's duty" (a partial translation of Old French mettre en deveir "put in duty"), from Old French dever "duty," from Latin debere "to owe" (see debt). One's endeavors meaning one's "utmost effort" is from late 15c.
c.1400; see endeavor (n.). Related: Endeavored; endeavoring.