- past tense form of strive.
strove
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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But it is impossible to believe in the honesty of these arguments, which were recently defended, in dialectic perversion of the truth, by Sir Edward Cook in an article entitled "How Britain Strove for Peace."
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
With hands on oars the ferryman Strove where the stubborn current ran, With a green reed between his teeth.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
The table, fronting you with icy stare, Strove to look witless that its legs were bare, While the black sofa with its horse-hair pall Gloomed like a bier for Comfort's funeral.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Then Anśumán, dear Prince! although No brighter name the world could show, Strove long the heavenly flood to gain To visit earth, but strove in vain.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Within the half-hour Strove, Cutter, and Engle had apologized to Norton; after this, they promised him to keep their hands off and their mouths shut.
From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson
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