wrangle
Example Sentences
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Atop the aerial ladder of a bright red fire engine, a firefighter wrangles a hose.
From Los Angeles Times
As a young father, Craig moved his family to the Northern Territories of Australia, where he wrangled “scrub bulls and buffalo” that had escaped from herds and needed to be sent to market.
Much of the show is staged—it had to be—though Manhattan traffic cannot be wrangled.
The two TV giants wrangled for weeks over how much Google must pay to carry Disney’s channels, including FX, Disney Jr. and National Geographic.
From Los Angeles Times
The book’s finest pieces wrangle, in elegant prose, with humanity’s contradictions; the weaker ones indulge in name-dropping, footnotes and op-ed invective.
From Los Angeles Times
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