strives
- present tense form of strive (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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So in his laboratory, baffled Cyrus sitting lone, Strives to correct the sad defect in his Instructiphone.
From The Jingle Book by Herford, Oliver
Now all the people grieve and groan Through Queen Kaikeyí's deed alone, Who, having dared this deed of sin, Strives for herself the gain to win.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
With the first pause the resting rowers gave, He waits not—looks not—leaps into the wave, Strives through the surge, bestrides the beach, and high Ascends the path familiar to his eye.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
For from all eternity We are pledged to love, Bound in all our lives to be True to what above All the turmoil and the din Strives that starry tryst to win.
From The Piper and the Reed by Norwood, Robert W.
The fire that on the Magi's altars glowed Spake to his soul in symbols and expressed The immortal purity that without rest Strives with the mortal grossness whose abode Is in the heart.
From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Musgrove, Charles Hamilton
