STRIFE in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for STRIFE, such as:

1. The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.
2. Twenty years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.
3. In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.
4. The Rockefeller episode vividly demonstrates the Republican appetite for strife.
5. War, strife, conflict, were the very air he breathed and put him in a good humor.

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strife
 n.  act of striving; earnest endeavor; exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  War, strife, conflict, were the very air he breathed and put him in a good humor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
2  It was social elements entering into strife, while awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
3  As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral solemnity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
4  Next these same kings laid down their mutual strife and stood armed before Jove's altar with cup in hand, and joined treaty over a slain sow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
5  Ah my sister, long ere now I knew thee, when first thine arts shattered the treaty, and thou didst mingle in the strife; and now thy godhead conceals itself in vain.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
6  Jupiter himself holds up the two scales in even balance, and lays in them the different fates of both, trying which shall pay forfeit of the strife, whose weight shall sink in death.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
7  The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
8  She did not want strife, she blamed him for wanting to quarrel, but unconsciously put herself into an attitude of antagonism.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 12
9  It will not do to beg the question by pleading that many white men are also stirring up strife.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
10  But then he said that his tireless fate would bring forth, when the strife lulled for a moment, a man to ask of him an explanation.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
12  When the bustle occasioned by this incident was somewhat composed, the chief Outlaw took from his neck the rich horn and baldric which he had recently gained at the strife of archery near Ashby.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
13  Here it was that the Home was ruined under the very shadow of the Church, white and black; here habits of shiftlessness took root, and sullen hopelessness replaced hopeful strife.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
14  The ten master songs I have mentioned tell in word and music of trouble and exile, of strife and hiding; they grope toward some unseen power and sigh for rest in the End.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
15  And remember, moreover, that it is often he who comes off victorious from the strife, absolved of all crime in the eyes of the world.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
Example Sentence:
1  A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
2  The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.
3  Twenty years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.
4  The Rockefeller episode vividly demonstrates the Republican appetite for strife.
5  Both partners now resent your interference; that's what you get when you fish in the troubled waters of marital strife.
6  Too much of his life had been occupied with economic woes, health problems, and marital strife, yet he always found things to enjoy in the face of his adversity.