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Definition

obtain with difficult effort or force

wrest = take (with effort)

wrested = took by force

wrest = obtain with effort

wrested = took

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

wrest = take (with effort)

But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

wrested = obtained with effort

All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

wrested = taken

I stayed up late, twisting my hair into knots as I tried to wrest meaning from the textbook, then lying in bed and brooding over my notes.
Tara Westover -- Educated

wrest = obtain with difficult effort

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.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

wrest = take with force

The "pillar of light," which was supposed to follow Harold Crosby's now-interrupted, risky descent, appeared to have a will of its own; it illuminated Owen on the mountain of hay, as if the light had wrested control of itself from Barb Wiggin.
John Irving -- A Prayer for Owen Meany

wrested = taken (with effort)

They had been given to me by the bishop, and I was still trying to wrest meaning from them.
Tara Westover -- Educated

wrest = obtain with difficult effort

I saw their faces superimposed on every purlin Shawn welded into place that summer, so that by the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.
Tara Westover -- Educated

wrested = taken with difficult effort

I will settle them on the Gift, once I have wrested it away from your new Lord Commander.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
He drew clumsily and fired absurdly, and in another moment he was struck in the mouth and the revolver wrested from his grip.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
But these were hard things to do, because the people must learn that it is harmful for each man to wrest a living from his own little piece of ground.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
CHAPTER XXXII And I beseech you, Wrest once the law, to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
As he was wresting it free, a blaze of white appeared at the edge of his vision.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
Her brothers would laugh and try to wrest the page from each other with their strong hard fingers.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
If any female now playing is to wrest the title of world chess champion from men, it is likely to be her.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

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