Sentence examples for striving to console from inspiring English sources

I looked up, in disbelief, to quell it with a furious glare, and, of course, it turned out to be a group of students striving to console a quietly sobbing friend.

A typical class, packed with 30 pupils aged 10 and 11, was buzzing with quiet activity soon after form teacher Dawn Hallybone gave out the Nintendo hand-held consoles, with pupils striving to beat each other – and her – at 20 mental arithmetic questions.

The fiancé is said to be "inconsolable," although whether Beckett himself required consoling, or whether he was striving to present himself as someone with no such needs, is impossible to gauge.

Sons striving to outdo fathers.

He was striving to become.

"Striving to think".

We were striving to do that last year.

Striving to equal record storied W.A. Larned.

They are striving to be noticed.

He's striving to be the best.

"He was always striving to better himself.