Crossword clues for strived
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strived \Strived\, obs. p. p. of Strive. Striven.
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel.
--Rom. xv.
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Usage examples of "strived".
She strived to impress me with the vanity and the falseness of all European creeds, as well as with a sense of her own spiritual greatness: throughout her conversation upon these high topics she carefully insinuated, without actually asserting, her heavenly rank.
I straightened myself in my stirrups, and strived to persuade my understanding that this was real Egypt, and that those angles which stood up between me and the West were of harder stuff, and more ancient than the paper pyramids of the green portfolio.
Indeed, if there was a consistent theme in all that Adams wrote and strived for, it was the need for a binding American union.
Adams had chosen to say nothing of any of his own attainments, but rather to place himself as part of a continuum, and to evoke those qualities of character that he had been raised on and that he had strived for so long to uphold.