- past tense form of strive.
strove
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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The table, fronting you with icy stare, Strove to look witless that its legs were bare, While the black sofa with its horse-hair pall Gloomed like a bier for Comfort's funeral.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
And like a planet, moving several ways, At one self instant she, poor soul, assays, Loving, not to love at all, and every part Strove to resist the motions of her heart.
From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher
"If now," the Senators, closing, say, "Aught else remain, speak out, we pray" Hereat he paused; his better heart Strove strongly then; prompted a worthier part Than coldly to endure his doom.
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman
Every sentence began or closed with the name of Priscilla, Till the treacherous pen, to which he confided the secret Strove to betray it by singing and shouting the name of Priscilla!
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin
The mightiest they among the sons of men; The mightiest they, and of the forest beasts Strove with the mightiest, and their rage subdued.
From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of
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