How to Use wrest in a Sentence

wrest

verb

• 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
• He's also accused of trying to wrest a riot shield away from an officer.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2023
• Her three nieces were actively involved in wresting, volleyball, and track and field.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024