striving

Example Sentences

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The Passion of Jesus ranks among the most common themes in Western art, painted or sculpted by artists too numerous to count, with many striving to create artworks both emotionally stirring and original.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once that happened, the poor pastors—social and theological outsiders in a kingdom that was striving for a unified Prussian church—were doomed.

From The Wall Street Journal

The act of striving for more, like some frenzied truffle hound, is usually an attempt to override fear.

From The Wall Street Journal

Companies in the AI race are striving to perfect the technology, but they have not eliminated the possibility of errors such as "hallucinations" in which fabricated output is confidently presented.

From Barron's

It seems that every year the thing I’m missing and striving toward is to be outside more.

From Los Angeles Times