How to Use wrestling in a Sentence
wrestling
noun- He was on the wrestling team in high school.
- My favorite sport is wrestling.
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For the future of wrestling, WWE is looking to the past.
—Lauren Coates, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
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John Quinlan has been the school's wrestling coach for 39 years.
—Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
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The crowd was there for a lucha libre — or free wrestling — match.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
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In pro wrestling, the good guys are known as babyfaces and the bad guys are known as heels.
—Alice Hines, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
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The two chopped it up about pro wrestling and the intricacies of the sport.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
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In fact, at times the bout looked to be as much of a wrestling match as a boxing match.
—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2021
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The one that’s happening on the court and the wrestling match in a player’s own mind.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
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The thing is the contestant has a background in wrestling.
—Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023
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Hogan, a pillar of the wrestling world for decades, died July 24.
—Erik S. Hanley, jsonline.com, 31 July 2025
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The crunch time of the college wrestling season will soon be upon us.
—Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
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Iowa has been the standard for years in college wrestling.
—Eli McKown, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2022
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And he and his buddy were engaged in a leg-wrestling match.
—Washington Post, 6 June 2021
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Melissa's dad says her son is a wrestling champ in the making.
—Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2021
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Arbery and Travis McMichael can be seen in the video wrestling over the firearm before the shooting.
—Devon M. Sayers and Alta Spells, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
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Three more points would have meant a lot in the defensive wrestling match.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2021
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Which surprised Poway High wrestling coach John Meyers not in the least.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
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The silicone bottom of the mold means no wrestling to free your frozen sphere.
—Sean Evans, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2023
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On the Monday after their fourth loss, the players met with the coaches, in the wrestling room.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2024
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Afraid to get in trouble, Dom went to wrestling practice.
—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 30 June 2024
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This sumo wrestling is not the cliched images of 600-pound men in nothing but top knots and loin cloths.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
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As the lights dimmed, the show’s production crew members threw a curtain over the wrestling star.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
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Bliss was asked what was something pro wrestling fans don’t know about Flair.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
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Several wrestling fans embraced the change, while the WWE took some time to adapt.
—Mark Lasota, Ph.d., Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Was captain of the football and wrestling teams at Princeton.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 June 2021
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Bad Bunny spoke with Allure in 2021 about his love of wrestling.
—William Earl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
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Japan, on the strength of judo, wrestling and fencing was second with 54 points.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
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Dylan found the flyer stapled up on some rotted utility pole by the wrestling gym.
—Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
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The mother of two elaborated on her current feelings regarding the loss of her WWE wrestling icon father, with whom she was estranged at the time of his death.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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