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Meanings of striving in English
Synonyms
Examples for "strain"
Examples for "strain"
1
Health services always come under extra strain at this time of year.
2
Russia recorded several cases of this strain of the virus last year.
3
Argentina's health ministry has confirmed one case of the new flu strain.
4
Differential exposure to financial strain may explain some differences in population health.
5
Aid agencies worry that the huge influx will strain present government resources.
1
Friends said the pains were the result of a previous hernia injury.
2
The authorities take great pains to prevent citizens from accessing the internet.
3
She said the long, long day was as bad as labour pains.
4
She was maybe fifty, but had taken great pains to look younger.
5
Expectant mothers toiled in the fields until they felt their labor pains.
1
Moreover, these practices have an influence on the relation between husband and wife, on their emotions towards each other and towards the whole sexual nisus.
2
Nisus quickly took the lead springing far away ahead of the rest.
3
The youth, flying, became separated from Nisus, and was captured by the enemy.
4
Nisus and Euryalus, Lausus and Pallas, come all to unfortunate ends.
5
Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.
Usage of striving in English
1
Meet a new generation of young people striving to protect their history.
2
Does my heart good to see such young men striving for success.
3
But Mr Gove said he was striving for higher standards in schools.
4
He wanted to achieve results, but I think he loved striving more.
5
These challenges have been the driving motivation behind striving to help others.
6
It is long-term success we are striving for, he said on Thursday.
7
They were two men striving for the favor of the same girl.
8
She was striving to lose herself in the activities of the moment.
9
His every thought was wrapt up in the immensity of the striving.
10
Is it natural talent allied to constant striving to be the best?
11
Your greatest error was in striving at first for such physical perfection.
12
No; God mercifully restrains His hand, in His merciful striving with men.
13
He held it up in the air a moment striving to think.
14
In the meantime, Marshal Tallard was striving bravely to avert the defeat.
15
Always striving for more than his machinery could offer and often delivering.
16
So many people spend their lives striving to keep in the swim.
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Striving through the time
Striving across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common