wrangle
verb (used without object)
to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
wrangled
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past participleof wrangle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof wrangle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
wrangleverb (used without object)to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
Example Sentences
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Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
“She did,” he called from a distance, as he wrangled one of their two dogs, Chicken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
As the world’s major auction houses prepare for next month’s spring sales in New York, clues are starting to trickle out about the masterpieces they’ve wrangled to resell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Together, we wrangled the cot onto its casters.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
