Words similar to struggled

Example sentences for: struggled

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

As I struggled to stay on my feet, I looked at the side of his camera and saw a C-SPAN decal.
They struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense against an unprecedented challenge they had never before encountered and had never trained to meet.
On the other hand, JQA struggled to stake out his own terrain as a lawyer or, his ultimate fantasy, a poet.
In addition, the 911 system struggled with the volume of calls and rigid standard operating procedures according to which calls conveying crucial information had to wait to be transferred to either EMS or FDNY dispatch.
As I struggled manfully to avoid staring at her cleavage, she explained that the house had been built four years ago, and that she had redecorated it throughout.