desperate struggle
Frequency: 7.512.0 per million words
A fight undertaken with little hope of success.
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- There were the sounds of a desperate struggle coming from the locked room.
- The climbers were caught in a desperate struggle against the freezing blizzard.
- The small animal put up a desperate struggle to escape the predator's jaws.
- He found himself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in the wilderness.
- The retail company is currently engaged in a desperate struggle to avoid bankruptcy.
- The rebels were finally defeated after a long and desperate struggle.
- Doctors are involved in a desperate struggle to contain the spread of the new virus.
- She finally gave up the desperate struggle to keep her family's business afloat.
- The drowning man's desperate struggle was witnessed by helpless onlookers on the shore.
- The peace treaty ended years of desperate struggle between the two neighboring nations.