Sentence examples for strove with from inspiring English sources
His lawyers strove with some success to hamper the prosecution's presentation of evidence.
They strove with desperate care to be correct in their bearing, neither to jostle us accidentally in the streets nor to shrink away from us pointedly.
For these reasons Catherine neither sought to dominate Henry nor to rule in his place but rather suffered him to exploit her and strove with unremitting pains to supply his deficiencies.
For a driver who strove with such fierce diligence to win the world championship Nico Rosberg has given up its fruits very quickly; champion on Sunday, retired on Friday, he was not even a six-day wonder.
The squirrel team's inventiveness echoes, though in a less serious context, the workings of Alan Turing and his war-time team of whirring wheels and information, who also strove, with success, to be a split second ahead of rivals.
A few Sundays ago, a half-dozen young comics braved the stifling heat ("Is it hot in here," Morgan Venticinque asked the crowd, "or are we just outside?") as they strove, with mixed results, to entertain a Washington Square Park audience that was equal parts engaged and indifferent.
Hence Jacob was given the name Israel, or "He Who Strives With God".
"We didn't strive with all our might in the Olympic way.
Gursky does not choose to be excluded from normal life, but rather strives, with quirky futility, to achieve the ordinary.
This Polish sculptor has striven, with a maniacal accuracy, to create art that echoes worlds now lost.
