Use of wrest in Sentences. 29 Examples

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wrest in the middle of sentence


  1. to wrest the truth out of sb.
  2. To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.
  3. I tried to wrest the gun from his hands.
  4. The men had returned to wrest back power.
  5. They plotted to wrest power from the king.
  6. You wrest my words out of their real meaning.
  7. I managed to wrest the photograph from his grasp.
  8. The officer managed to wrest the gun from his grasp.
  9. A security guard managed to wrest the gun from the man.
  10. They attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces.
  11. They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.
  12. The rebels tried to wrest control of the town from government forces.
  13. Until now,many peasants have to work hard to wrest a living from the soil.
  14. Foreign investors are trying to wrest control of the firm from the family.
  15. He was attacked by a security man who tried to wrest away a gas cartridge.
  16. For the past year he has been trying to wrest control from the central government.
  17. Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back.
  18. Overall, it took a good many years for the primaries to wrest control from the bosses.
  19. The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company from the current directors.
  20. Dudley also dropped one pass and watched Ray Lewis wrest away another for an interception.
  21. Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power, not a populist-based overthrow.
  22. I believe her when she says she could never wrest from herself the same emotion for another child.
  23. Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.
  24. Only the inner satellites were its permanent property; the Sun could never wrest them from its grasp.
  25. Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
  26. He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.
  27. The effect of the decree was to wrest control of Moscow's police force from the city soviet and the regional soviet.
  28. In their view, the automatic machinery was unreliable and the management was wrong to attempt to wrest controls from the shop-floor.
  29. As a lifelong Communist, Clasper knew that it was absolutely essential to wrest control of the workers away from the plant management.

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