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
He ceased; the seer, impatient of control, Strives, like a frenzied Bacchant, in her cell, To shake the mighty deity from her soul.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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
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
Save his plough-beam naught he judgeth, None he angereth, or grudgeth, Strives with none, takes none in toils, Crushes none and none despoils; Overbeareth not, though strong, Doth not even a little wrong.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
