How to use "struggled" in a sentence

Helen was by nature everything that poor Charlie struggled to be: impeccably well mannered, sophisticated, graceful, at ease and confident in any situation

As she had struggled to move up from dancer to costumer to choreographer to lounge-revue coordinator to producer, Michael had been displeased with her commitment to work

A hot welling of tears blurred her vision, and she struggled to repress them

He struggled with it for a moment, and then he realized that it was equipped with an automatic system.

but he's reaching out to me." She struggled to explain the understanding that had come to her in the diner

She struggled to contain her tears, but she needed all her willpower to keep her eyes dry.

After sunset I struggled on along the road towards Putney, and in a garden I found some potatoes, enough to stop my hunger