struggle
IPA: strˈʌgʌɫ
noun
- A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
- (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.
verb
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- To have difficulty with something.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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Examples of "struggle" in Sentences
- She struggled with errors.
- The workers resumed the struggle.
- The struggle to govern the commons.
- The struggle of this one is in vain.
- I appreciate the acknowledgement of the struggles.
- There is the struggle for professionalism in dentistry.
- He reasserted that the struggle of Kashmiris was not a communal struggle.
- His main struggle is going to be Hillary trying to sabotage his campaign.
- As the conflict drew on, the local populace grew weary of the power struggle.
- I think here the struggle is the disparity between how much art there is and how so little access there is to it for certain communities.
- The character's main struggle is to keep her dual identities separate in accordinace with society's rules that you be either boy or girl but never both.
- Though the bishop went on to explain that the struggle is a spiritual one and the means nonviolent, he announced an apocalyptic struggle against evil “that may rival any in time past.”
- I put in the time to watch them struggle with their emotion (I use the term struggle loosely) only to have some anti-climatic kiss in the back of a flower shop and a lame professing of love.
- The great principle at the bottom of everything in Nature is that the fittest survives: or, as I think it is better to say it, in any particular conflict or struggle that thing survives which is the fittest to survive _in this particular struggle_.
- But while this security will become complete under the régime of socialism, which will assure to every man who works the material means of life, this will not exclude the intellectual forms of the struggle for existence which M. Tchisch recently said should be interpreted not only in the sense of a _struggle for life_, but also in the sense of a _struggle for the enrichment of life_. [