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