STRUGGLE in a Sentence

Learn STRUGGLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
301 example sentences for STRUGGLE, such as:
1. Some struggle with his conscience.
2. You'd had such a struggle, Scarlett.
3. But not without a struggle, I'll warrant.
4. The students voted to continue the struggle.
5. Only those who struggle on can achieve success.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRUGGLE
struggle
 v.  make a strenuous or labored effort
 n.  an energetic attempt to achieve something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was a moment's pause in the struggle, as though the combatants were testing their weapons.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  But it had always been a struggle to teach Scarlett that most of her natural impulses were unladylike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The helpless wounded succumbed to her charms without a struggle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  And there was still a long struggle ahead, which meant more dead, more wounded, more widows and orphans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  But she had promised and now they belonged to her, even as Wade and Prissy belonged to her, and she must struggle and fight for them as long as she had strength or breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Ashley, like her, was tired of the struggle and he wanted to escape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  She leaned toward him ardently but he held her away from him, looking at her with eyes from which all remoteness had fled, eyes tormented with struggle and despair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Some struggle with his conscience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  They called for rude and hard struggle if one was to conquer them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  But not without a struggle, I'll warrant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  During those days of anxiety and struggle there was only one dependable, understanding person in her world, and that person was Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  The silence fell again and on Melanie's face there were signs of a struggle to gather strength to speak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  Now the struggle went out of the tired face as though with Scarlett's promise, ease had come to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
14  She must let her go easily, without a struggle, without tears, without sorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
15  You'd had such a struggle, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  I heard sounds of a desperate struggle, just above my room.
2  It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she had wanted.
3  Only those who struggle on can achieve success.
4  Guerrillas have pledged to intensify the armed struggle against the new government.
5  Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
6  I wouldn't care success oilure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance.
7  We must struggle against this prejudice for a more tolerant attitude to our beliefs.
8  After a fierce struggle, he got a beat on his opponent.
9  The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
10  I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance.
11  The victim put up a heroic struggle against his assailant.
12  The police said that there was no sign of a struggle by the murder victim.
13  He called on his people to carry forward their struggle for national liberty.
14  The Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle.
15  The students voted to continue the struggle.