The bird struggled but couldn't get loose.
The bird struggled, and then lay still.
The bird struggled a moment more, then stopped.
The white bird struggled pitiably, with a long, eerie scream.
The little light bird struggled uselessly.
The nest entrance is often so narrow that the bird struggles to get inside.
The bird struggled to right itself, its wings flapping violently.
A bird, already half plucked and with beak wide open in the soundless yell of strangulation, was feebly struggling in its long clever hands.
The bird struggles out of the egg.
The bird squawked, struggled and lay limp.