strive
verb (used without object)
to exert oneself vigorously; try hard.
had strived
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past perfectof strive.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She described her family as one she had "strived to build for years".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
The exchange had strived through the year to strengthen client checks, it said, developing crypto's "best security and compliance team."
From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023
Polite, soft-spoken Durant had always seemed the perfect player for what everyone imagined Oklahoma City to be and what the City of Oklahoma City had strived to project.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2018
Enough English coldness, bring on American demonstrativeness – it was what his mother had strived for, after all.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2018
For Holt, the video represented everything she had been working against at Centennial, where she had strived to foster inclusion and unity at a school with a small population of black students.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2016
