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Example sentences for "had the greatest difficulty"

  • I had the greatest difficulty to get the horse I was leading to come on at all; I had no power over him whatever.

  • It was as well that the captain had warned me; otherwise, I should have raised an involuntary shout of joy; as it was I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my expressions of delight.

  • The poor fellow did not trust me -- and well he might not -- for I had the greatest difficulty to withstand the tempta- tion to carry the biscuit to my mouth.

  • But, in truth, I had the greatest difficulty in the world in preventing Andre from rushing out upon the can- nibals, and snatching the odious food from their clutches.

  • But, in truth, I had the greatest difficulty in the world in preventing Andre from rushing out upon the cannibals, and snatching the odious food from their clutches.

  • It was as well that the captain had warned me; otherwise, I should have raised an involuntary shout of joy; as it was, I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my expressions of delight.

  • Once down at the bottom, with baggage often immersed deep in water, we had the greatest difficulty in making the wretched animal get up again, and we frequently had to drag it bodily up the opposite slope by means of ropes.

  • We had the greatest difficulty in extricating ourselves from the many terrifying whirlpools at the end of the rapid, in a great basin 900 m.

  • We had the greatest difficulty in crossing the big, deep lake, because of the high wind which was blowing at the time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had the greatest difficulty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great builder; had brought; had ceased; had determined; had forgotten; had formed; had had; had happened; had hoped; had killed; had loved; had met; had never before seen; had never seen before; had one; had plenty; had received; had risen from the; had scarcely; had seen; had she; had shown; had something; had succeeded; had such; had taken