Words similar to grappled

Example sentences for: grappled

How can you use “grappled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Retail buyers of old grappled with this problem as they do today.
McPherson grappled with the complexities and contradictions that plague us as black and white Americans in a way that no other writer I know of has done.
Freud grappled with this very dilemma in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
The issue arose (again) when I grappled with the purpose of this book.
Finally, though, Zeus overcame his cowardice and grappled with the monster.