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Example sentences for "struggle against"

  • Hardly was he got back to Carthage than he had to struggle against ever-increasing money difficulties.

  • His will, enfeebled by sin, was unable to struggle against itself.

  • With all that, when he looked back at the results of nearly thirty years of struggle against schism, he might well say to himself that he had done good work for the Church.

  • The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.

  • The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.

  • Thus, if a penitent desires to know or ought to be told how to struggle against anger, drunkenness or impurity, the confessor should know how to advise him and what measures to recommend to him.

  • The scrupulous person should be told that he is scrupulous, that his scrupulosity is not a conscience that he is obliged to follow, but a vain fear which he is obliged to struggle against by observing the directions given him.

  • It is sinful not to struggle against temptation, since he who in no way resists, not even passively, surrenders or yields to sin.

  • Our first fathers were not subject to temptation, properly so called, because they yielded to all their desires, because they made no struggle against them.

  • With nearly every gift of fortune, and not one single adverse circumstance to struggle against, he was scarcely launched upon the ocean of life ere he was shipwrecked!

  • But Science provided him with rational methods of research, owing to which he gradually progressed and conquered a series of truths, allowing him gradually to struggle against some of his troubles and to solve some of his problems.

  • Having expounded his views on senility and proved that it is a pathological phenomenon, Metchnikoff concluded that to struggle against it was quite as possible as to struggle against disease.

  • Certainly Christ would carry it, to the conviction of all that is in the soul.

  • Defn: To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.

  • Defn: To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

  • To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

  • To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.

  • To strive or struggle against; to withstand.


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


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