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Example sentences for "striving"

Lexicographically close words:
strive; strived; striven; strives; striveth; strivings; stro; stroak; stroake; stroakes
  1. John, striving to speak boldly, though in spite of his efforts his voice trembled as he spoke.

  2. The boy was striving to speak lightly, but his voice sounded strange even in his own ears.

  3. That's the way it seems to me, too," responded Fred, striving to laugh lightly as he spoke.

  4. In less than three hours he despatched the hired sleighs with their loads, and we all stood together in the empty house, striving to warm our hands over the embers of the expiring fire.

  5. After striving for a long while to stifle my foolish fears, I took the baby in my arms, and little Dunbar by the hand and ran up to the bush where Moodie was at work.

  6. That the dear little crathurs are striving in vain Which first shall my hand or my fortin' obtain.

  7. A cavalry patrol warned by the uproar, and catching sight of the fugitives in the growing dawn, was striving to intercept them.

  8. For three years war had raged in Cuba, where the natives were striving to throw off the intolerable burden of Spanish oppression and cruelty.

  9. A few minutes after Ridge entered it, and as he sat in dumb despair, vainly striving to realize his unhappy situation, a soldier brought him a bowl of bean porridge and a jug of water.

  10. Mary looked at him anxiously, striving to divine, by his expression, the result of the consultation on the stairs.

  11. He watched her for a moment, striving to connect the woman with her words.

  12. Through months he used to come away from the Lodge striving to discern importance in some answer she had made him, some question she had put to him.

  13. The Bull and the Calf A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a narrow passage which led to his stall.

  14. The spiritual idea has not yet found its adequate form, but is still engaged in striving and struggling after it.

  15. This principle is an essential phase in the development of the creating Idea, of Truth striving and urging toward (consciousness of) itself.

  16. Our intellectual striving aims at realizing the conviction that what was intended by eternal wisdom is actually accomplished in the domain of existent, active Spirit, as well as in that of mere Nature.

  17. Thus it is after death; the soul, striving to free itself, feels the burden of the body most as it is about to cast it off, but it is victorious in the end and relieved of its anguish.

  18. Evidently he was striving to subdue the exhortations of a desire which was seducing him into signing an untruthful statement.

  19. No vow, no conditions--nothing but appropriate motion, pure striving for the divine.

  20. Here are a number of images striving to give us an idea of a reality so vast that we are unable to grasp it.

  21. Such people would never tell you that they are learning how to grow old--striving each day after some knowledge which will tend towards the attainment of a really beautiful and lovable old age.

  22. The sight of a girl who, possessing youth, health, and the share of good looks and attractiveness which must accompany these two things, is ever striving to improve Nature's handiwork by the use of unnatural means.

  23. One associates the use of them with small minds and natures whose chief end and aim are to gratify personal vanity and attract admiration, instead of striving to win respect by the exercise of far nobler powers.

  24. We have already pointed out the simplicity of outline observable in old English cottages, and the absence of exaggeration and that disagreeable fussiness brought about by too much striving after the picturesque.

  25. And straightway caused the tide of talk to glide In other channels, striving to dispel The sudden gloom that o'er my spirit fell.

  26. Then drew my hand against her glowing cheek, And, leaning on my breast, began to speak, Half sighing out the words my tortured ear Reached down to catch, while striving not to hear.

  27. So for a time my labor seemed in vain, Since it but freshened, and made keener yet, The grief my heart was striving to forget.

  28. Other nations were stirring and striving to a naval strength and power, drawing aid and personnel from their mercantile services.

  29. Although differing in their operations and ideals, both services were striving to enhance the sea-power of the nation.

  30. They progressed on a path of experiment and probation suited to their needs, striving to construct mightier vessels and to forge new and greater arms.

  31. His brother threw himself upon him, covered him with his body, clasped him in his arms, and was striving to bear him out of the fire and the fray, when a second ball hit him also, and both expired together.

  32. He inspired her to make friends with her nerves, who were so devotedly striving to save her.

  33. Laura, blushing furiously, and Belle striving to appear wholly unconscious, but striving too hard, lent all the more merriment to the moment.

  34. The struggle against the bishops, in which a clamour for a reform of clerical life and a striving for local self-government were strangely interwoven, had raged for a couple of generations when King Henry V.

  35. In setting forth his empirical sensationism, Condillac shows many of the best qualities of his age and nation, lucidity, brevity, moderation and an earnest striving after logical method.

  36. The number of public libraries in the South is considerable, and the educational administration of several of the States is striving to put a well-selected library into every public school[1].

  37. The visiting nurses in the towns spend a large proportion of their time among the negroes, striving to teach hygiene and sanitation.

  38. The class enemy, Kapo admitted, was found everywhere, in and outside the Party, and it was striving hard to obstruct the path of socializing the family and emancipating the women.

  39. Drake at the stern was striving to outdo his rivals in casting the discus far behind the ship.

  40. There's one chance left," Reddy comforted, striving to bring back a spark of hope to their despairing hearts.

  41. The child went singing away, following up the current of the brook, and striving to mingle a more lightsome cadence with its melancholy voice.

  42. The hair is rendered rough; is prepared to catch the dirt; and not unfrequently the skin itself, by nature striving to counteract the effect of its deprivation, pours forth a secretion that aids in causing it to appear foul.

  43. It is true that when he is striving to hit off a scent he cannot work too patiently and perseveringly; but, on the other hand, the moment he is satisfied he is on it, he cannot follow too rapidly.

  44. Neither through our sensibilities nor our interests are we quick to learn that which Heaven itself is constantly striving to impress.

  45. This is the case generally at the present time; and it is strange it should be so, since Providence, from the creation of the earth, has been striving to woo and to teach us to entertain gentler sentiments.

  46. He was bending closer above the stone dial, striving to decipher the inscription on it: "Under blue skies My shadow lies.

  47. And he sat there staring at space over the top of the pencilled sheet of paper, striving to find some help in the matter.

  48. Very well, then," he said, striving to speak coolly.

  49. Ruthven glanced somewhat dubiously at the dog, then, as the animal made no offensive movement, he craned his fleshy neck, striving to see inside the house.

  50. Don't you know how, after striving and straining for something, you at last relax and let some inner part of your brain carry on the battle?

  51. Pretty, laughing, smartly dressed, and always preferring to lean on his decisions rather than indulge in the manufacture of wrinkles on her pretty forehead striving to find them for herself.

  52. Her cheeks had paled, and she was striving desperately to read behind the ill-fitting smile she beheld.

  53. Men accompanied by their well-starched womenfolk, women striving vainly to control their legions of offspring.

  54. He meant every word he had said, and somehow he felt he was still beyond the barrier, still outside the citadel he was striving to reduce.

  55. For five years I have been striving to help him to escape from the demon which possesses him.

  56. Also I'd like to know why they take a vicious delight in striving to make criminals of honest enough people in the process.

  57. None, sergeant," he said, vainly striving to avoid the sharp ears of their prisoner.

  58. They are a constitution and ordinance of my own striving and getting up.

  59. I am dayly & hourly striving to gather up what little I may from the wreck.

  60. I'm very glad to hear it," he said, throwing off his mood and striving to join in theirs.

  61. Now he had lighted a pipe, and was striving to conjure up all the stoicism of the dim mysterious East to his aid, the while keeping up the conversation with Melian, and doing so in such wise as to convey no apprehension to her mind.

  62. The black kitten was on her left shoulder and she was playing with it with a bit of string, which it was striving to seize without falling from its perch.

  63. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "striving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aim; ambition; animus; aspiration; attempt; competition; conflict; contest; counsel; desideratum; design; desire; determination; effect; effort; endeavor; enterprise; essay; exertion; fighting; function; grinding; hardworking; hassle; idea; intent; meaning; mind; motive; plan; plodding; plugging; point; project; proposal; prospectus; purpose; quarrelsome; resolution; resolve; rivalry; sake; strain; straining; striving; struggle; struggling; study; sweating; try; undertaking; view; warfare; warlike; warring; will; work; working