Let a mother be angry with her child and threaten him with punishment; she instantly assumes a grave tone which she strives to render powerful and intense.
XII One last embrace upon this mount bestow Whose flanks were pressed by Rama's holy feet, Who yearly strives his love for thee to show, Warmly his well-beloved friend to greet With the tear of welcome shed when two long-parted meet.
LIV If mountain monsters should assail thy path With angry leaps that of their object fail, Only to hurt themselves in helpless wrath, Scatter the creatures with thy pelting hail-- For who is not despised that strives without avail?
A fallen man can seldom raise himself; he dies and makes no sign; a woman strives on--endures all to the last.
There is no doubt that they are the actual disturbers of sleep, and not the dream, which, on the contrary, strives to guard sleep.
Such a current in the apparatus which emanates from pain and strives for pleasure we call a wish.
CANTO XX Ill strives the will, 'gainst will more wise that strives His pleasure therefore to mine own preferr'd, I drew the sponge yet thirsty from the wave.
The ghost of Max's mother appears to him and strives to warn him away.
Yet even as she floats she strives as though she would descend to where she has come from, while the sorcerer's harsh laugh greets her vain efforts.
He holds the masters up to ridicule in a delightfully humorous passage which parodies the Mastersingers' and Art Brotherhood motives, while the Spring Motive vainly strives to assert itself.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
Already the merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despises his old traditions, and is even ashamed of the faith of his fathers.
You only treat him with hate and aversion Because he truly strivesfor your conversion.
He strives to guide you on the road to heaven, And it's my son's duty to make you love him.
He it is that strives with men by way of a kind of inherent knowledge, testifying to them of salvation’s waters flowing free, and that they should forsake sin and plunge therein.
But he strivesin vain to persuade Frederick to the despised act of homage, and it is only at the intercession of the Emperor's kinsmen and the German princes that he consents to it.
Pylades strives to restrain the passion for revenge in Orestes, which imperils them both.
Each strivesso lustily for the mastery, it may be set down a drawn battle.
Not the slightest reference to the rash act, whereby the thirty thousand slaves of Antigua were immediately "turned loose," now mingles with the croaking which strives to defend our republican slavery against argument and common sense.
A minnow sliding downstream with a passel of other minnows stands a heap better chance of leading a pleasant life than if he strives for to conspicious himself by swimming upstream all by himself.
I only merely strives fur to use the few grains of common-sense w'ich the Good Lawd give me, tha's all 'tis.
One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer.
Art is certainly no teacher or educator of practical conduct: the artist is never in this sense an instructor or adviser; the things after which a tragic hero strives are not necessarily worth striving after.
The mature artist strives to obtain forms and effects of which he approves, he seeks for beauty.
Practically he lives for this world, and strives to make himself at home in it.
It has been at work now well on towards five years to prove to the working-men that it strives to abolish the Corn Laws solely in their interest.
And what does it teach so much as this: that Christianity, like Christ himself, ever strives to make the spectator feel that he is seen and is followed home?
Therefore every one whostrives for this dignity for the advantage of his person or for worldly honours is infected with simony.
Nor this contents; she strives to tear the rind, Their limbs enwrapping; and the tender boughs Pluck from their hands: but from the rended spot The sanguine drops flow swift.
Her wounding blows, upon her bosom one Strives to renew, as wont; her striving arms Stiffen'd to stone she sees.
Still Telethusa to the latest hour, With vain petitions strives her spouse to move, That thus he should not straighten so his hopes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
