How to use "striving" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "striving" in popular movie and book plots

  • The Ninja, striving for action, learn that the Overlord has survived the final battle and entered the Digiverse, an electronic world.  - Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
  • She fights and kills, striving only to be triad leader.  - Bad Blood (2010 film)
  • By 1526, Topiltzin is still striving to preserve the cult of Tonantzin, based upon the Aztec Mother Goddess.  - The Other Conquest
  • This is the story of a man who lived in the enormous shadow of his father, striving to discover his identity and who died in poverty.  - Gandhi, My Father
  • All human striving turns out to be nothing but a puppet show for superior beings, our very existence absurd.  - The Night of Kadar
  • Sheryl's husband Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach.  - Little Miss Sunshine
  • He undergoes many adventures on his journey to Maryland and while in Maryland, all the while striving to preserve his innocence (ie.  - The Sot-Weed Factor
  • Bethrezen, striving to impress the Highfather, created a new world and named it Nevendaar in the angelic tongue.  - Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
  • As the continent proceeds to tear itself apart, the people of Atlantis panic, striving without success to escape their doom.  - Atlantis, the Lost Continent
  • The Xeelee, masters of baryonic matter, have known about the photino birds and have been striving to thwart them.  - Ring (Baxter novel)
  • Esmé is bright, well-mannered and mature for her age, but troubled that she may be a "cold person" and is striving to be more "compassionate".  - For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
  • Their physical and intellectual growth become a sort of competition, with Sirius striving to equal his handed sister.  - Sirius (novel)
  • At the same time, advertising executive Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) is striving for a pitch to advertise diamonds.  - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  • It is eventually revealed that Soichiro was striving to be perfect in order to avoid turning "bad" like the parents who abandoned him.  - Kare Kano
  • She also claims it to be a brutal crackdown of any colony world striving for autonomy from Starways Congress.  - Xenocide
  • Their travels take them through forests, mountains and snowy fields while striving to avoid the attention of the morthbrood.  - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

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