striving

[ US /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈa‍ɪvɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal
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How To Use striving In A Sentence

  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hatred appears both as aggression towards others and as a striving for self-annihilation.
  • Some people are perfectionists, constantly striving for excellence.
  • Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim (this is the motivation for all that research, after all) and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers.
  • Mankind is constantly striving to expand his horizons, to push back the boundaries of the unknown, and to challenge himself further and further.
  • After the passing of his brother, Frank, Uncle Fletcher continued to work non-stop within the community, striving for better conditions and quality for his people.
  • Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
  • This would be particularly severe for low income economies that are striving to pullout of their current economic quagmires.
  • No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought.
  • It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope. 
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