Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: strife
IPA transcription: [stɹ'aɪf]
Pronunciations of strife
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: discord, strife
    Meaning: lack of agreement or harmony
  • Synonyms: strife
    Meaning: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
Usage examples
  • Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?
  • As soon as it would do for them to move, they started, eager for the strife.
  • Then our life was a peaceful and quiet one; now there is nothing but wrangling and strife.
  • That domestic strife serves likewise amply to supply the slave trade from the prisoners of both parties.
  • For the nobles and merchants of Holland, four centuries and a half ago, were at open strife with one another.
  • For that horn did never good, but caused strife and debate, and always in her days she had been an enemy to all true lovers.
  • But this state of things did not last long, and strife rose twixt the red and white men, and some of the red-skins left the camp.
  • 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.
  • And if ever there was a boy who had a chance of being a prodigy at cab-driving, Diamond was that boy, for the strife came to be who should have him out with him on the box.
  • 'Twas in truth an hour Of universal ferment; mildest men Were agitated; and commotions, strife Of passion and opinion, filled the walls Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording World War I, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Dog (Goya), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of Lebanon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Iron Curtain, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Elizabeth I of England, License CC BY-SA 4.0