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# striving

«striving» in Mova's school dictionary: **trying very hard for a long time to get or reach…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of strive: strive, strives, strove or strived, striven or strived, striving); noun (striving — uncountable, and strivings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Striving means trying very hard for a long time to get or reach something: «She is striving to improve». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#m1)

2) As a noun, striving is the effort of trying hard, or the things a person tries hard for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school mottos, reports and assemblies you hear «striving for excellence», «always striving to do our best». In stories and history, striving describes people working hard against difficulties. Phrases: «striving for», «striving to», «striving towards a goal».

### examples

- Our school motto is «Striving for excellence». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x1)
- She is always striving to beat her best time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x2)
- The team kept striving even when they were losing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x3)
- Striving for a goal takes patience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x4)
- He is striving to learn his times tables by Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x5)
- The explorers were striving to reach the South Pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x6)
- All that striving paid off when she won the prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x7)
- He said he was striving after truth, and was considered by his aunt "a model and an example." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/#x8)

### note

«Strive» is formal; everyday words are «try hard» or «work hard». Past: «strove» (traditional) or «strived»; past participle «striven» or «strived». Used with «for» + noun or «to» + verb.

### In the corpora

- [For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.43/)
- [This also is vanity and a striving after wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.50/)
- [This also is vanity and a striving after wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.77/)
- [Better is a handful of quietness, than both the hands full of labour and striving after wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.79/)
- [Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.90/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «striving» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striving/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.