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.
• 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.
• The Harvard center will strive to develop new technologies for genomic molecular imaging, while the Johns Hopkins center will be devoted to advancing the emerging field of epigenetics.