Example Sentences

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Wrestled out of Jaden’s grip and charged Mong.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Wrestled with him for over an hour; Braithwaite doing ditto with Reed.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

With inarticulate sounds his uncouth lips Wrestled and strove—I am full-fed, and yet I hunger!

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

“For had not Herakles a second time Wrestled with death and saved devoted ones?”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

O Patric! for a hundred years At evening on the glimmering sands, Beside the piled-up hunting spears, These now outworn and withered hands Wrestled among the island bands.

From Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)