Sample Sentences for
wrest
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    They wrested power from the old government.
    wrested = took
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    They had been given to me by the bishop, and I was still trying to wrest meaning from them.  (source)
    wrest = obtain with difficult effort
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    He tried to wrest the key from Catherine's grasp, and for safety she flung it into the hottest part of the fire; whereupon Mr. Edgar was taken with a nervous trembling, and his countenance grew deadly pale.  (source)
    wrest = take with force
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    All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face.  (source)
    wrested = taken
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    Each watched and waited for an opportunity to wrest control from her, keeping a none-too-friendly eye on the other families in case they happened to make a move first.  (source)
    wrest = take with force
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    Her arms still ached from wresting the heavy ears from the stalks, row after row, hour after hour.†  (source)
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    Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good.†  (source)
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    But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.  (source)
    wrested = obtained with effort
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    One of the little girls managed to wrest the banana roadster away from Peter Sinkowitz.  (source)
    wrest = take (with effort)
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    As he was wresting it free, a blaze of white appeared at the edge of his vision.†  (source)
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    Finally, Bob wrests free.†  (source)
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    The fellow took another step toward the barber and wrested one of the scissors from his hand.  (source)
    wrested = took by force
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    She saw this wedding as a chance to wrest the throne from her brother.†  (source)
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