Use "wrested" in a sentence
1. He wrested the knife from the murderer.
2. 2 The usurper wrested the power from the king.
3. He wrested the suitcase from the chauffeur.
4. Jacob had wrested a blessing from his father by a cruel trick.
5. Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
6. Synonyms for Clutched include took, grabbed, held, clenched, grasped, gripped, clasped, snared, snatched and wrested
7. Synonyms for Clenched include took, grabbed, held, grasped, gripped, clasped, snared, snatched, wrested and caught
8. Her property, then, has been wrested from her; it was not she that abandoned it.
9. The thought of reclaiming what had been wrongfully wrested from him began to sough through every fevered fiber of his being.
10. Prince Norodom Sihanouk had ruled Cambodia adeptly since he had wrested independence from the French on 9 November 1953.
11. When Phraates III came to the throne in 70 BC, the Roman general Lucullus was preparing to attack Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, who was supreme in western Asia and had wrested Mesopotamia and several vassal states from Parthia.
12. Introduction Aurangzeb, Emperor Shah Jahan’s sixth child, was born on 24th October 1618 at Dohad in Madhya Pradesh, and wrested India’s crown from his father before the end of June 1658, after defeating his brother Crown Prince Dara Shukoh’s armies, first at Dharmat near Ujjain (15th April 1568) and again at Samugarh on 29th May 1658
13. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching Affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.