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Example sentences for: strove

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In picking the 37 contestants for this survey I strove to find representatives of the three price points--premium, middle-of-the-road, and generic--and to give recycled and novelty products an equal opportunity to impress.
Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.
The British broadsheets strove for originality in their front-page headlines.