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Example sentences for: struggled

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We have some firms that are strong and some firms that have struggled," she says.
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.
He ducks his chin onto his chest, bobs his head back and forth, gulps as if stifling a burp, then suddenly lifts his head and expresses a thought that not only seems to have just occurred to him, but which also seems to have struggled with conflicting emotions before emerging.
The Mars Polar Lander disaster threatens to cripple NASA's space exploration program, which has struggled since the "national psychic letdown that followed the moon landings."
As I struggled to stay on my feet, I looked at the side of his camera and saw a C-SPAN decal.