Sentence examples for strove but from inspiring English sources
He strove, but proved unable to break the dominance of the Electorate of Saxony in the Upper Saxon Circle.
They strive, but the gap still grows.
Everybody is marching forward, striving, but to what?
Moreover, the value of land increases each year not through landowners' striving, but that of others.
And the result was no faux-European striving, but genuine American film art.
Rice celebrated material striving but also larger national goals — the long national struggle to extend benefits and mobilize all human potential.
No wonder he was anxious: the head of UK sport, John Steele, described the spectacle of British athletes striving but not winning in Vancouver as "disappointing".
Not for me, the lucky beneficiary of my mother's quixotic and self-abnegating striving, but for my perpetually impoverished parents.
In a Prologue in Heaven, God says 'man will err as long as he can strive,' but he (or Goethe) means or comes to mean the opposite: a man who keeps striving can't go wrong.
The set of china hit the floor with a crash 6. Men strive but seldom get rich 21.
We strive and strive, but it's always one step ahead of us.
