STRUGGLE in a Sentence

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The important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRUGGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The helpless wounded succumbed to her charms without a struggle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Some struggle with his conscience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  But not without a struggle, I'll warrant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
15  You'd had such a struggle, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
16  All success comes from tireless effort and pursuit, and all happiness comes from daily struggle and perseverance.
17  After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
18  It took many years of struggle to establish majority rule in South Africa.
19  The room bore evidence of a struggle.
20  Don't struggle so much,best things happen when not expected.
21  The important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
22  The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
23  He grandly declared that "international politics is a struggle for power".
24  It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets.
25  Control the destiny of the rudder is the struggle.
26  We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
27  Their relation doesn't struggle on any more.
28  We must unite with them and at the same time struggle against them.
29  As a single father, he found it a struggle bringing up three children.
30  The poor old man was only just able to struggle along with the help of a stick.