wrest in English
With respect to the harp, he produces the sharps, flats, quarter-notes, or any intermediate variation deviating from the natural notes, by causing the wrest -pins, that if, the pins by which the strings are extended and tuned, to move partly round centres and thereby increase or decrease the tension of the strings more or less, as may be required to answer the desired change of the notes.
Use "wrest" in a sentence
1. to wrest the truth out of sb.
2. I tried to wrest the gun from his hands.
3. They plotted to wrest power from the king.
4. The officer managed to wrest the gun from his grasp.
5. The men had returned to wrest back power.
6. I managed to wrest the photograph from his grasp.
7. You wrest my words out of their real meaning.
8. A security guard managed to wrest the gun from the man.
9. They attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces.
10. Government forces are in a fierce fight to wrest Zawiya from rebel control .
11. They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.
12. They had struggled to wrest a living from the arid soil.
13. The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company from the current directors.
14. The rebels tried to wrest control of the town from government forces.
15. 28 They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.
16. 12 Until now,many peasants have to work hard to wrest a living from the soil.
17. Until now,many peasants have to work hard to wrest a living from the soil.
18. He was attacked by a security man who tried to wrest away a gas cartridge.
19. Dudley also dropped one pass and watched Ray Lewis wrest away another for an interception.
20. Overall, it took a good many years for the primaries to wrest control from the bosses.
21. Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back.
22. 18 Dudley also dropped one pass and watched Ray Lewis wrest away another for an interception.
23. The Path to Authenticity starts from the assertion that we wrest our true power from our individuality
24. Only the inner satellites were its permanent property; the Sun could never wrest them from its grasp.
25. Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power, not a populist-based overthrow.
26. I believe her when she says she could never wrest from herself the same emotion for another child.
27. Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre ; wrest that land from the wicked race, and subject it to yourselves.
28. Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
29. The effect of the decree was to wrest control of Moscow's police force from the city soviet and the regional soviet.
30. The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds.
31. In their view, the automatic machinery was unreliable and the management was wrong to attempt to wrest controls from the shop-floor.
32. As a lifelong Communist, Clasper knew that it was absolutely essential to wrest control of the workers away from the plant management.
33. In the Second Congo War, Uganda and Rwanda attempted to wrest much of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Kabila's forces, and nearly succeeded.
34. His dismissal of the Parlement of Paris and his chief minister, Choiseul, in 1771, were attempts to wrest control of government from those Louis considered corrupt.
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36. For the next few days, planes from the American carriers continued to assist the Marines who were engaged in a bloody struggle to wrest the island from its fanatical defenders.
37. However, the Vietnamese government has already taken steps to wrest control over the funeral and the patriarch’s legacy by announcing that the proceedings will be organized by the state-sanctioned Vietnam Buddhist Church.
38. The Great Armament refers to the vast military build-up developed from SA 3310-SA 3319 by Ar-Pharazôn and his army to assail the Valar, and wrest immortality from them
39. A STORMY SURRENDER TO LOVE He swept down from the North, disguised as a Confederate officer, determined to woo the belle of New Orleans, Analise Caldwell - and wrest from her the military secrets her father held
40. The Company proposed a solution in a document revealingly entitled “Reasons Why the West Indies Company Should Wrest Brazil From the King of Spain as Soon as Possible,” which was accompanied by the “List of What Brazil Can Produce.”
41. The best of these up-and-coming writers are pursuing mirth boldly, Buoyantly, incisively, with an ear tuned to the present but with a firm grasp of the universal fundamentals of rib-tickling--and the universal need to wrest laughter from public and private agony.