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Example sentences for "long struggle"

  • Banks, who, after a long struggle, was elected speaker.

  • No party having a majority, it was feared by some that the scenes of 1855, when Banks was elected speaker only after a long struggle, would be repeated.

  • Ice and snow-drifts had rendered every movement one long struggle.

  • Its left flank now completely uncovered by the retreat of the Brigade Pittie, and its last strength exhausted by a long struggle, the brigade found itself finally forced to evacuate its long-held position.

  • After a long struggle, Siegfried overthrew him.

  • After a long struggle he again reached the open sea, and then strove with all his might to get home before the sun should quite have set.

  • After a long struggle, Siegfried had the best of it, and the giant begged for his life, swearing to be a true comrade and helper in the hero's fight with the dragon, who could not be overcome without his aid.

  • After a long struggle, he succeeded in reaching the tribune, and urged the assembly to judge his brother with less severity.

  • After a long struggle, he sank under lassitude and weakness; I dare not say from incapacity, for had he been far stronger and more skilful, had he been a Richelieu or a Sully, he would still have fallen.

  • His political interest was probably first kindled by the Preston election in 1830, in which Lord Stanley, after a long struggle, was defeated by "Orator" Hunt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eastern parts; long after; long and; long away; long boiling; long bones; long cruise; long discussion; long hill; long knives; long narrow; long period; long rope; long shot; long stretch; long string; long syllable; long thoughts; long vowel; long voyage; longer extant; longer knew; longer stay; longtemps que; necessary existence; standing army