On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Struggling. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as troubled and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Struggling in a sentence
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Struggling meaning
present participle and gerund of struggle
Synonyms of Struggling
Using Struggling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of struggle
- Useful related words include: troubled.
- In the example corpus, struggling often appears in combinations such as: struggling to, struggling with, are struggling.
Context around Struggling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Struggling
- In this selection, "struggling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bills, family, help, reputationally, financially and schools stand out and add context to how "struggling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a barber struggling to make and a family struggling to make. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "struggling" sits close to words such as returns, unless and causes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with struggling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We're all struggling for land, we're all struggling to bury our dead. (14 words)
We are struggling reputationally, we are struggling financially and yet Sinn Fein would have us wade into complex foreign policy. (20 words)
A green card cost me about $25,000, and I was struggling to pay my bills, struggling to pay my rent. (21 words)
Over the last more than a decade, however, the Belchers have emerged as an entity all their own, a family struggling to make ends meet, but never struggling to cheer each other up and have as good of a time as they can. (43 words)
Secondly, you’re just another guy out there struggling, you’re just a barber, struggling to make ends meet, you don’t have the resources to take care of a lady like me, you have no money and you have no job yet. (43 words)
In the years following his death, Mercury’s extraordinary life and his exuberant embrace of who he was would become a northern light for many struggling with the disease, and the many more struggling to accept themselves as they were meant to be. (43 words)
There’s even talk of selling off struggling brands by 2026, but what brand under the Stellantis banner isn’t struggling right now? (23 words)
King: But don't you think you coming out could probably help others who are struggling the way you were struggling with it? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
A green card cost me about $25,000, and I was struggling to pay my bills, struggling to pay my rent.
And then, a trans person, it's kind of the whole nine yards, they're really struggling at home with their family, and they're struggling with people around them.
Over the last more than a decade, however, the Belchers have emerged as an entity all their own, a family struggling to make ends meet, but never struggling to cheer each other up and have as good of a time as they can.
Small businesses were struggling to keep employees and find workers, while families were struggling to keep up with the cost of living following consecutive interest rate hikes, he said.
They’re struggling, you know, I’ve just given everybody a 10% rise, I gave them a rise two years ago, because they’re struggling.
We are struggling reputationally, we are struggling financially and yet Sinn Fein would have us wade into complex foreign policy.
We're all struggling for land, we're all struggling to bury our dead.
At times it can be hard to admit when you're struggling, but here I am today to tell you just that, i'm struggling with online learning.
Courtney Sweetman-Kirk added: “When you’re a striker and you’re struggling for goals and struggling for confidence you want something like that.
That, he says, includes sending more resources to struggling schools, adding support for school principals as well as early-career teachers, and hiring additional support personnel, like guidance counselors and therapists, to help struggling students.
There’s even talk of selling off struggling brands by 2026, but what brand under the Stellantis banner isn’t struggling right now?
I, therefore, recommend the following, especially for struggling private universities and for an efficient rejig of the system: The government should provide reasonable tax breaks for the ‘struggling’ universities to assist them financially.
Money from sponsorships ($10 to $500) goes to support struggling communities in Uganda and Rwanda, but also musicians struggling with the complete evaporation of their livelihood.
King: But don't you think you coming out could probably help others who are struggling the way you were struggling with it?
Secondly, you’re just another guy out there struggling, you’re just a barber, struggling to make ends meet, you don’t have the resources to take care of a lady like me, you have no money and you have no job yet.
In the years following his death, Mercury’s extraordinary life and his exuberant embrace of who he was would become a northern light for many struggling with the disease, and the many more struggling to accept themselves as they were meant to be.
A 1994 clip of Couric and co-anchor Bryant Gumbel struggling to understand an email address became so famous that the pair eventually parodied it in a Super Bowl commercial.
A big part of the problem is the significant fall in the number of music teachers and funding cuts that have left many schools struggling to afford even the most basic of musical instruments.
Acclaimed actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who portrays a junior artist in the upcoming comedy-drama film ‘Tiku Weds Sheru’, remembers his struggling times as a junior artist when he didn’t know what his next meal would be like.
Accordingly, if a child or adolescent is experiencing gender dysphoria, baptism is appropriate if the child or adolescent is well prepared to acknowledge and identify with their sex despite struggling with dysphoria on an ongoing basis.
Common combinations with struggling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- struggling to 78×
- struggling with 43×
- are struggling 34×
- is struggling 18×
- was struggling 11×
- were struggling 10×
- struggling for 9×
- been struggling 8×
- after struggling 8×
- the struggling 7×