strove

[ strohv ]

verb

1. a simple past tense of strive.

strove

/ strəʊv /

verb

1. the past tense of strive

Example Sentences

Grant and his eugenicist comrades strove to make America’s public policies as brutal as the racial science’s coldhearted facts.

From Salon

Both deployed the "Southern strategy," described as such because it strove to appeal to white Southern voters who opposed racial integration following the Civil Rights Movement's success.

From Salon

As rescuers worked, they strove to “reduce vibration and personnel close to the trench,” to avoid causing more dirt to cave in, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

The former president's own pick for vice president, JD Vance, once called Trump a "moral disaster" and possibly "America's Hitler," but strove to make amends since running for a Senate seat in 2022.

From Salon

Just as the Gladyshev team had done, O’Donnell and his collaborators strove to tease out signs of epigenetic modification in the cells of pregnant people.

From Science Magazine

Related Words

• aim
• endeavor
• go all out
• seek
• tackle