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How To Use wrest In A Sentence

• When big recording stars like the B-52's, Rosanne Cash and Salt-N-Pepa come together to make a benefit album, major labels wrestle for the chance to issue it, right? When Politics Doesn't Play
• More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question: was Charles the Bald really bald?
• His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling. Times, Sunday Times
• There is wrestling with college kids at Fresno State, where he was an All-American junior heavyweight.
• It is common to see the book of Job as wrestling with the problem of innocent suffering. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
• We worked really hard to come up with money by doing everything from sumo wrestling competitions to washing cars.
• Women's wrestling is a totally new discipline, while women's sabre is included in fencing.
• It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
• His commitment to the police force is mirrored by his dedication to wrestling, a sport which he has served as both a manager and a competitor. Times, Sunday Times
• Then Hay wrestled a nylon bag crammed with playthings from the cargo space behind the third passenger seat.