Sentence for strife | Use strife in a sentence

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  • Shame on your strife! (8)
  • She was tired of strife. (10)
  • The drama of the strife was past. (18)
  • The Colonies can not sustain much longer the unequal strife. (18)
  • His countenance was the fiery laugh of a thirster for strife. (10)
  • What strife between pities and passions; what longing for peace! (8)
  • Away from all the strife of men he was Journeying to a greater peace. (8)
  • He was bronzed, and keen with strife, and looked young, but spoke not over-hopefully. (10)
  • I do not doubt that he supposed himself to have borne the heat and burden of the strife. (7)
  • Things of charm they were, rich in suggestions of peaceful lands beyond a sea of strife. (1)
  • Who courts her dooms to strife his bended neck; He grasps a blade, not always by the hilt. (10)
  • That figure of deformity, made in the strife of the city, he no longer recognized to be his. (13)
  • Numerous subalterns were abroad, lively for strife, and bright with the signal of their readiness. (10)
  • Man and Angels, ye, Whom stain of strife befouls, A light to kindle souls Bear radiant in the stain. (10)
  • After Ireland was conquered by the English its culture declined, owing to continuous wars and internal strife. (3)
  • Religion, the lack of which in him the Countess deplored, would have guided him and silenced the internal strife. (10)
  • Then there was a perfect stillness, succeeding the strife as quickly, Vittoria thought, as a breath yielded succeeds a breath taken. (10)
  • Ah, what a sweat of anguish in that strife To hold them fast conjoined within him still; Submissive to his will Along the road of life! (10)
  • But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. (5)
  • It strives without a mark for strife; It feasts beside a famished host: The loose restraint of wanton life, That threatened penance in the ghost! (10)
  • Very soon she found herself standing there, watching for the issue of the strife, almost as dead as a weight in scales, incapable of clear vision. (10)
  • She was faint with strife and dejected, a condition in the young when their imaginative energies hold revel uncontrolled and are projectively desperate. (10)
  • Epsom permitted it; but Ewell contained a sturdy citizen, who, smoking his pipe under his eaves, contemplative of passers-by, saw strife rushing on like a meteor. (10)
  • Epsom permitted it; but Ewell contained a sturdy citizen, who, smoking his pipe under his eaves, contemplative of passers-by, saw strife rushing on like a meteor. (22)

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Definition of strife:

  • strife, strf, n. contention for superiority: struggle for victory: contest: discord. | adj. strife’ful (_spens._), full of strife, contentious, discordant | also strif’ful. (0)

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