Meanings of struggled helplessly in English

When they came to, they struggled helplessly while their bodies pressed together.

He struggled helplessly until he managed to get out some words which made sense.

For a moment her brain, still sodden with sleep, struggled helplessly with her surroundings.

More eyeballs blinked in my face as I struggled helplessly.

She struggled helplessly for a moment, then lay still, eyes closed, waiting to die.

The beetle rolled on to his back, and struggled helplessly with his legs: I turned him over.

I struggled helplessly in his grasp.

With bursting veins and protruding tongue he struggled helplessly to escape as his assailant dragged him toward the safe.

He struggled helplessly to free himself, had a glimpse through the panting bodies of Strangman and Beatrice watching from the distance.

The parson struggled helplessly with a tangle of texts here; but the right one seemed to fail him, till Hannah audaciously put it in:

The rough and ready cordon of special constables seemed powerless to dam the human tide, and caught in that tide's eddies, Sherston struggled helplessly.

She struggled helplessly as she was held in a vise-like grip by a laughing young man, whose alcohol-laden breath caused her to choke and gag.