Word Finder - struggling

definition

To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.

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During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.

definition

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.

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The act of one who struggles.

I looked and saw this little fellow struggling in the water.

Jenn closed her eyes, struggling to breathe.

You've been struggling for so long to take care of yourself.

Rows of red tulips stood like sentinels along the walkway, struggling to survive against the encroachment of summer.

She gagged and clawed at his hands, struggling to take a breath.

Obviously he was still struggling with it.

Natasha knows that he is struggling with terrible pain.

There's water now, A'Ran, she managed, struggling not to cry.

Dean cried, struggling to maintain his precarious position.

She braced herself and pulled his power into her, struggling to control it while panic rose.

His face turned pale, he was struggling for air.

He closed his eyes to the darkness, struggling against his crippling terror.

With a startled gasp, she dashed into the cabin, struggling to shut the door against the rising wind.

She leaned against a building, struggling for control of herself.

She stopped struggling, apparently realizing how futile it was.

Gabriel's mate was struggling to sit up.

She moved to the emerops computer, struggling to hold back tears.

She was hauled to her feet and she blinked, struggling to keep the pain at bay.

She stopped struggling, overcome by feelings.

She poured herself some more, struggling to figure out what she was missing.

While not privy to the Council's business, he assessed the appearance of their father at a time when Rhyn was struggling for control did not bode well for any of them.

She breathed deeply, struggling to remain in control when all she wanted to do was run for the nearest psych ward and check herself in.

Elise said nothing else, struggling to control her own emotions.

Her legs felt weak, and she sat heavily on the curb, struggling to control her breathing so she didn't pass out.

Struggling with consciousness, Jackson first noticed the intense burning in his throat.

She swallowed hard and nodded, struggling to control the strange sense of desire bubbling uncontrolled within her.

She sucked in a breath, struggling to calm herself.

Taran saw the two struggling figures teeter dangerously close to the edge of a pit.

The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd.

Hopefully, the synergy of our combined teams are generating will have effective results for the struggling businesses.

One day she arrived to find him struggling to sit up in bed.

Mandy Rice said The duckling was really struggling and kept going under the water.

I took up the chip on which the three I have particularly described were struggling, carried it into my house, and placed it under a tumbler on my window-sill, in order to see the issue.

Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.

The other wife had already finished while the good-for-nothing was still struggling with the singed feathers.

In fact, he must be struggling to float on the ocean of problems this family represented.

What was clear was the fact that he was struggling over something.

It stunned him to feel the planet breathing, struggling back to life after hovering so long on the edge of death.

Rhyn squinted towards the sound of his brother's voice, struggling to balance the sensations within him.

It seemed every other rider had passed him on the climb until he looked down the mountain and saw hundreds of dots of color still struggling up the incline behind him.

Struggling into his shirt, Charles tried to yank away, but Darian Traveled to his cabin before releasing him.

So this was what he had been struggling with.

Still, their presence on the Asiatic side of the Straits was for the time being indirectly helpful to their British comrades who were struggling for a grip on the extremity of the Gallipoli Peninsula.

A small cluster of flames was struggling to stay alive in a pile of logs.

He was already struggling not to let his hands roam her body freely, the way he wanted to.

But on the night before the algebra examination, while I was struggling over some very complicated examples, I could not tell the combinations of bracket, brace and radical.

That instant, when Nicholas saw the wolf struggling in the gully with the dogs, while from under them could be seen her gray hair and outstretched hind leg and her frightened choking head, with her ears laid back (Karay was pinning her by the throat), was the happiest moment of his life.

She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother.

A strange wheezing noise was heard near the window end of the room, rather like someone struggling for breath.

Shortly after crossing the Bohemian-Saxon frontier, and whilst still struggling through the sandstone defiles, the stream assumes a north-westerly direction, which on the whole it preserves right away to the North Sea.