Example Sentences

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Good fellowship was, if not assumed, then striven for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Where "Call of Duty" focuses on tighter, smaller skirmishes, Battlefield has always striven to create a more epic canvas.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Emily — brash, naïve, and clad in metallic blue knee-high boots — held up an uncomfortable mirror of everything she had striven not to be.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023

A key figure was producer Willi White, a tribal citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who has striven to bring more authentic depictions of Indigenous people to movie screens.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2022

Whereas Sirius had sought to advertise his difference from the rest of the family, Regulus had striven to emphasize the opposite.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling