Sentence example with the word 'wrest'

wrest

anamorphism, confiscate, deviation, elicit, extract, knot, pull, rip from, tear from, uproot, wring from

Definition v. obtain by seizing forcibly or violently

Last update: July 8, 2015


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The thief wrested the luggage from the passenger.   [Please select]

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Poor people have to wrest by toiling.   [Please select]

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My wife had to wrest the candy bar from my hands in order for me to stop eating it.   [Please select]

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Rita felt she had to wrest the weapon from the hostage-taker for the sake of her safety.   [Please select]

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"How did you wrest it from him?" the Other asked, circling the couch.   [Please select]

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And you who wrest old images from the burial earth.   [Please select]

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Will they wrest from us, from me, the palm of beauty.   [Please select]

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"Gradually the Saracens have wrested post after post from our hands."   [Please select]

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Dellse's weapon was wrested from his grasp and in a moment he was powerless.   [Please select]

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Only thus could he be sure that Fortune would not wrest it from him.   [Please select]

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She could not abdicate her throne, neither could any wrest it away from her.   [Please select]

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