Examples of 'wrested' in a sentence
Meaning of "wrested"
Wrest is a verb that means to engage in a physical fight or struggle
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- simple past tense and past participle of wrest
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India has wrested the initiative back.
So you are the one who wrested control.
The sea wrested none from him.
I do not know how you wrested control.
Wrested violently from the earth.
But his mind wrested with a dilemma.
Wrested control of her finances.
Let the ring be wrested from him.
Henry wrested away from your father when he started.
These two last senses are wrested by scholars.
The sea wrested from them by their foes.
Authority was not to be wrested from him.
Both towns were wrested form the jihadists by other forces.
Freedom is a value that must be wrested from fate.
The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.
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All initiative would be wrested from us.
We have wrested from the nature many of her secrets.
Imagine what could be wrested from highest perch.
He wrested with it until dawn.
Culture is not wrested from nature.
Wrested from him altogether.
But now you have wrested the information from me.
As if it were your destiny and not something you wrested.
The terrorist wrested the gun from a female soldier.
This is one of the great secrets wrested from nature.
We have wrested all this from them without a nuclear strike.
They have privatised the flag and wrested the microphone.
I wrested with him on the cold stone floor of the prison.
Then the cap can be wrested from the aerosol can.
Wrested from another.
Then they wrested.
Everyone clearly recollects the circumstances under which these concessions were wrested.
How these gems were wrested from the stellar dragons remains unsaid.
Eleonor had wrested.
Every village must be wrested in bitter struggle from a ruthless and desperate enemy.
By all the power vested in me my power be wrested out and forever free.
From the giants he wrested the forces of preparation to transform the plants into medicaments.
The dwarf will control us all if the ring is not wrested from him.
A pleasure that got wrested from you from your first day.
The feudal lords grudgingly yielded and some concessions were wrested from them.
History teaches us that political advantage wrested by crude military force can not be sustained.
I wrested it from the Swedes with my own blood.
I suppose you are wondering why we wrested you from your lovely slumber.
Wrested the inspired writings of Paul to their own destruction.
The heretofore hidden powers we have wrested from the natural world are now our powers.
And they wrested it back through involvement of the foreign ministry in Lebanon.
How an Israeli billionaire wrested control of one.
They wrested it back less than a year before the arrival of the First Crusade.
But the Pasztor boys wrested it from his hands.
Goguryeo wrested the western terminus of the Han River from its rival Baekje.
