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Example sentences for: struggled

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

True to character, Gore struggled with his decision for many months in the summer of 1969, seeking the counsel of his father, his friends, and a professor.
While Republicans in Congress struggled in the 1998 elections, most Republican governors routed Democrats by record margins.
In the past couple of years, though, Levi's has struggled.
In some sense that I struggled to understand but eventually gave up on, another famous piece, "Travels in Georgia," was apparently shaped like a lower case e.
She struggled with one of the hijackers who killed or otherwise silenced her.