• Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour, strive
  Meaning: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

• I will not, therefore, talk of its impropriety, but endeavour to prove its inutility.
• "I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'" said Mr. Knightley. "Success supposes endeavour.
• 'Tis, methinks, a virtue to which I, who am no conjuror, could without any great endeavour arrive.
• You must endeavour to train the girls to something better than they have been trained to yet, Constance."
• These conditions society is justified in enforcing, at all costs to those who endeavour to withhold fulfilment.
• When we endeavour to penetrate their essential and final nature, we have a choice between two contrary theories.
• He procured an introduction to her, and requested her patronage in his endeavour to discover the philosopher's stone.
• This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
• "And now, Lily, will it not be well that you should turn your mind away from the subject, and endeavour to think of other things?"
• As yet I have considered man merely in his physical capacity; let us now endeavour to examine him in a metaphysical and moral light.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, License CC BY-SA 4.0