grappled in English

verb
1
engage in a close fight or struggle without weapons; wrestle.
passersby grappled with the man after the knife attack
2
seize or hold with a grapnel.
This said, they grappled him with more than hundred hooks.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "grappled" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "grappled", or refer to the context using the word "grappled" in the English Dictionary.

1. Two officers grappled with the gunman.

2. The thug grappled him around the neck.

3. Two men grappled with a guard at the door.

4. She grappled with her assailant but he got away.

5. The drovers, Amidst a swirl of dust and sand, desperately grappled with the grounded soldiers

6. Some one tried to poach our market manager; she grappled with her moral dilemma.

7. Synonyms for Coped include managed, survived, contended, dealt, endured, grappled, hacked, handled, faced and fared

8. Synonyms for Brawled include fought, foughten, grappled, scrapped, battled, wrestled, scuffled, clashed, struggled and tussled

9. Lincoln's guest Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth, but Booth stabbed him and escaped.

10. Croatia has long grappled with invading forces and external governments: Hungarian, Habsburg, Ottoman, Venetian, Serbian and Yugoslav

11. Synonyms for Addressed include took, handled, managed, negotiated, played, contended with, coped with, dealt with, fielded and grappled with

12. Though the Bible does not describe him as an athlete, he wrestled, or grappled, all night long with an angel.

13. Like many Island politicians of the era, Coles grappled with the absentee landlord question that plagued Island politics for nearly a century.

14. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution

15. Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, Accident prone is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.