"strive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was an avalanche of fury that Johnson strove vainly to fend off.
- They were Maud's hands, striving vainly to tear loose the hand that was throttling me.
- As he came to a stop the little man had stalled his motor and was vainly striving to revive it.
- What tragic argument might be there vainly striving to confute the gentle dead?
- Quivering uncontrollably, I strove vainly to lift myself to a sitting posture.
- Almost frozen with fear, she vainly strove to effect the trick.
- "Violence is unnecessary, my lord," she said, vainly striving to speak coolly and firmly.
- The old man saw him coming, and vainly strove to elude his grasp.
- It came to me that his was the action of a man striving vainly against a weariness unutterable.
- Through the eighth round his opponent strove vainly to repeat the uppercut.
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