Example Sentences

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“That one, brother, he bite,” she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

As he was wresting it free, a blaze of white ap-peared at the edge of his vision.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

By that time Morrison was at Corson's side and was wresting the instrument from the wall.

From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman

In England the Danish invader, fork-bearded Swend, father of the great Cnut, was wresting the kingship from the feeble grasp of Ethelred the Redeless.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John

The people of the Carolinas and Georgia fully expected to acquire the Floridas while the North was wresting Canada from British control.

From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen