Strives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRIVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRIVE, to try hard
• make great efforts to achieve or obtain something
• struggle or fight vigorously
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to exert much effort or energy

Words related to STRIVES

strive9 strived11 striven10 striving12 strove9

Words that contain STRIVES

restrives12 outstrives13 gainstrives15

How to use STRIVES in a sentence

• It is a tangle of complications, which, since they have nothing solid to rest upon, begin by baffling, and end by boring, the reader who strives to keep pace with them.
• With bursting earnestness, with a fierce savage sincerity, half-articulating, not able to articulate, he strives to speak it, bodies it forth in that Heaven and that Hell.
• It proceeds on a principle of equality, and strives to reduce all things to the same standard.
• Kendal nurses children all day and strives to play Rosalind at night.
• Believe me, dear, at midnight, or at morn, In vain exhausted nature strives to rest, Thy absence plants my pillow with a thorn, And bids me hope no more, on earth, for rest.
• The head of the Madonna, heavy as it is and conventional in type, still strives to represent maternal affection mingled with an almost melancholy reverence.
• Our missionaries move amidst the reality of scenes which religious fiction vainly strives to equal.
• Thus day by day the convalescent strives to accustom the sinews to their work.
• Then Science, with irrigation works and improved hygiene, strives hard to gain a victory, but still the struggle rages doubtfully.
• The Mess-waiter strives to be in three places at once.
• His limbs jerked as he walked, his features twisted, and he carried himself like a man who strives hard to hold himself in when his whole soul is aflame with exultation.
• He strives hard to say the finest things in the world, and he does say them.
• She pledges herself to His service, strives to be faithful, suffers agonies of remorse over her failures.
• The vanity that strives to cover over these facts is unworthy of men.
• These two natures live together in him, and each strives to get the better of the other.
• All knowledge is systematic, in so far as it strives to put phenomena in quite definite relations, one to another.
• Nothing, certainly, is easier than for a young man to sit still and to stand up, pretending that he strives internally to resist the desire to do either.
• Wherever a people is fit to be free and to govern itself, and generously strives to be so, there go all its sympathies.
• Knight strives with knight, lady with lady, and the weak die.
• We are given, moreover, the symbol of the tree, which, rooted in the earth, its mother, and nourished by her juices, strives ever upward towards its father, the sun.
• In the advancement of her mind, quite as much as in the adornment of her person, she strives to make herself beautiful as well as lovable.
• The patient child whose watchful eye Strives after all things pure and high, Shall take their image by and by.
• He strives to recall the particular printing-office.
• Whoever strives to know learns that no human lore is despicable.
• The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.

Similar words containing STRIVE without suffix s

strive9 strived11 striven10 striver10 restrive11 strivers11 outstrive12 restriven12 restrives12 gainstrive14 outstriven13 outstrives13 gainstrived16 gainstriven15 gainstrives15

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