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Example sentences for "fierce struggle"

  • He appeared before the city on June 9, and on the following day succeeded, after a fierce struggle, in occupying the heights which surrounded it.

  • But the people gathered in the Piazza Vecchia, and after a fierce struggle, drove back the soldiers.

  • General Pfuel fired on them; but, instead of yielding, they threw up barricades, and a fierce struggle ensued.

  • A fierce struggle of thirty minutes gave them advantage which they followed through the dark to the base of the high ground held by bayonets and batteries innumerable as compared with their limited ranks.

  • It was driven back after a fierce struggle, General Taylor, commanding, mortally wounded.

  • The Viennese were roused to an heroic resistance; and, after a fierce struggle, the Turks were driven back from the walls of Vienna.

  • In Maggie's bosom there was a fierce struggle of feeling.

  • There was a fierce struggle within, the wildly beating heart throbbing for one moment with a newborn love, and then rebelling against taking that shadow, beautiful though it was, in place of her whose memory she had so long revered.

  • A fierce struggle ensued in parliament, and it was not until March 28 that the articles of union were carried and sent to England.

  • After a fierce struggle of ten hours they turned and fled through the burning town.

  • We would have been faced, as in the autumn of 1916, with a fierce struggle.

  • There can be no doubt that, had the Soviet taken the lead in the Revolution, there would have been a fierce struggle against it, and the Revolution would have been squashed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appears also; close contact; common form; conspiracy against; dearest friend; each paragraph; ecclesiastical courts; equal share; exclusively devoted; fever heat; fierce battle; fierce fighting; fierce struggle; her hands; her life; human thought; muscular strength; must mean; one hundred years ago; other reasons; still future; tremulous voice; warm them; wistful look