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Examples of strive in a Sentence
We must all strive to do better.
She always strives for perfection.
They continue to strive toward their goals.
Recent Examples of strive from the Web
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Having created countless problems by turning to agriculture, rich societies have little choice but to press on: working, striving and inventing, even as this progress creates more problems in need of solving.
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There is no ideal form to strive for; there’s only life, and there’s more than one way to grow up strong.
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Marco Ribeiro, a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, strives to understand the black box by using a class of AI neuroscience tools called counter-factual probes.
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In one room, a rainbow palette of clothes, shoes by Roger Vivier, and other accessories shows how the designer was the first to strive for a 360° approach.
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His whole life was a painful [back and forth] between the light, to which the composer so strived, and the call of carnal passions, perceived by him as diabolical temptation.
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Even in cities striving to be safe spaces for immigrants, those fingerprints are automatically run through ICE databases because of a federal program called Secure Communities.
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Washington hopes to use the moment to strive towards unity, as POLITICO notes, but big changes aren’t likely.
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This should not inhibit us in striving to understand the purpose of life, and so on.
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Origin and Etymology of strive
Middle English, to quarrel, contend, fight, endeavor, from Anglo-French estriver to quarrel, from estri, estrif strife — more at strife
Synonym Discussion of strive
STRIVE Defined for English Language Learners
strive
playDefinition of strive for English Language Learners
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: to try very hard to do or achieve something
STRIVE Defined for Kids
strive
playDefinition of strive for Students
strove
\ˈstrōv\;striven
\ˈstri-vən\ orstrived
;striving
\ˈstrī-viŋ\: to try very hard We will strive to win.
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