strive

How To Use strive In A Sentence

• In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
• These are real people - people who still support the war, people who believe that women should be subservient to men, people who believe that gays should strive to be cured or remain celibate! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
• The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
• Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it. 
• Barbie, Toys “Я” Us machine guns—these are “charged objects,” contaminative; they represent the dog-eat-dog world, the obsessively competitive culture that synagogues and mosques and churches strive to keep out. The Barbie Chronicles
• The idea behind the phrase 'la bella figura' was that one should always strive to look good. The Sun
• For Evan Snyderman of R 20th Century, a leading New York gallery, Design Miami/Basel is one of the few fairs in the world committed to the level of presentation and connoisseurship our gallery strives to achieve. Maturing Gracefully
• Observe what is best and to strive to universalize these qualities.
• 135 There is a grey area between ornament and decoration where one or other strives to compensate for poverty of form.
• The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections.