How to Use wrest in a Sentence

wrest

1 of 2 verb
Definition of wrestnext
Synonyms for wrestnext
  • He tried to wrest control of the company from his uncle.
  • The two women have agreed to make this climb as a way to wrest Becky out of her funk.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Still, somebody out there knows that our art needs to wrest it back, to take the trash in.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Once there, detectives said the men used the earthmover to wrest the ATM from the ground and dump it into the trailer.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
  • Some of its creditors have moved to wrest control of brands Ruyi bought.
    — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The Houthis have instead pressed their campaign to wrest control of Marib province.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • There were only remnants of the glue that once held the spikes in place, as if someone—some bird—had wrested them free.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 15 July 2023
  • Trying to wrest control from the outside hasn’t worked for Kendall, either.
    — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2021
  • That McCauley is both dead and alive presents the authors with a unique problem: How to wrest drama out of scenes meant to be life and death?
    — Tod Goldberg, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
  • All will be challenged to fight for playing time and wrest it from the veteran players.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Guin was on top of Tim then and slapping his ears, trying to wrest the phone away for a long time after the Jones household had gone silent.
    — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Does this mean Republicans have a chance to wrest control of the state from Democrats in November?
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Drivers can still wrest control of the gearbox by way of steering wheel paddles (above), but the third pedal is gone.
    — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The prospect of prison time may have played into his party’s efforts to try to wrest control of Congress away from Castro.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Our sense of fairness is piqued when a place—Elsinore, a house in Brooklyn—might be wrested away from the person who has title to it.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And next year, Republicans need to flip only a handful of seats to wrest power away from Democrats.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But her plan is try to wrest control of the Republican Party, at long last, away from Donald Trump.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Brandon Tsay, whose family owns the studio, wrested the gun from Tran’s hands.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The brown-and-white hawk briefly relented, hovering a few feet overhead before swooping down again to try to wrest the snake from Jones.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The brother knights at last locate Aegon, but they are confronted by Criston and Aemond, who wrest the prince from the knights's capture.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The saga in New Orleans is the latest example of a city trying to wrest back housing and calm rising rent and property prices.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
  • As a result, tens of millions of Ukrainians have become the unwitting hostages in Putin’s attempt to wrest a better deal.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022
  • For centuries, families like his have scurried up açaí trees to wrest free thickets of dripping berries.
    — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
  • That a mere mortal was tasked with reshaping her, trying, that is, to wrest the chisel away from the hand of Nature herself, makes for Greek levels of tragedy.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Film critic Justin Chang tackles the latest attempt to wrest Frank Herbert’s 1965 literary colossus to the big screen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Idealists who want to wrest back control for creators, like Butterick and Hedrup, aren’t yet willing to give up the fight.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Republicans need 51 seats to wrest control of the upper chamber from Democrats, while Democrats only need 50.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The position reports to the president, but Congress is trying to wrest control.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • These drivers were the backbone of economic growth in the U.S., but needed to organize to wrest their fair share from corporations − a task the union still maintains today.
    — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Moreover, if any great conductor could wrest millions of pocket-change dollars from arts-adverse tech companies, Salonen seemed the one.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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wrest

2 of 2 noun
  • Karamo is now backing a lawsuit seeking to wrest control of the building from the trust.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In the last year, the elder Reed has managed to wrest control back from a younger, more diverse group of Democrats — mostly through shenanigans with rules and fees and lies.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 14 June 2023
  • Jack Svetich was explaining how Crown Point was able to wrest control Tuesday.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Is this our chance to wrest control of hyperpop (and music in general) from the robots?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 June 2023
  • The goal of the constitutional amendment in Michigan was to wrest control of the redistricting process from politicians.
    — Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2022
  • As more special-interest dissidents wrest board seats via the new mix-and-match proxy voting card, there will be a period of painful adjustment for boards targeted by activists.
    — Peter R. Gleason, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • For her part, Shiv’s secretly whispering in Matsson’s ear, angling to undermine her brothers and wrest away company control into her own hands.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • The Disney-DeSantis feud escalated over the last two months when the company effectively outmaneuvered the governor’s attempts to wrest control of the district away from it.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • From the early 1920s onward, however, as the industry solidified, Gibson and her peers discovered that the men running the Hollywood studios were ready to wrest control, profits and power for themselves.
    — Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Karamo is now backing a lawsuit seeking to wrest control of the building from the trust.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In the last year, the elder Reed has managed to wrest control back from a younger, more diverse group of Democrats — mostly through shenanigans with rules and fees and lies.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 14 June 2023
  • Jack Svetich was explaining how Crown Point was able to wrest control Tuesday.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Is this our chance to wrest control of hyperpop (and music in general) from the robots?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 June 2023
  • The goal of the constitutional amendment in Michigan was to wrest control of the redistricting process from politicians.
    — Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2022
  • As more special-interest dissidents wrest board seats via the new mix-and-match proxy voting card, there will be a period of painful adjustment for boards targeted by activists.
    — Peter R. Gleason, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • For her part, Shiv’s secretly whispering in Matsson’s ear, angling to undermine her brothers and wrest away company control into her own hands.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
  • The Disney-DeSantis feud escalated over the last two months when the company effectively outmaneuvered the governor’s attempts to wrest control of the district away from it.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • From the early 1920s onward, however, as the industry solidified, Gibson and her peers discovered that the men running the Hollywood studios were ready to wrest control, profits and power for themselves.
    — Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023

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