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Example sentences for "wrestle"

Lexicographically close words:
wrenching; wrens; wrest; wrested; wresting; wrestled; wrestler; wrestlers; wrestles; wrestling
  1. Come and wrestle with the others, Let us pitch the quoit together!

  2. Rise up from your bed of branches, Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me!

  3. There were many nonunion men among the Lithuanians, and with these he would labor and wrestle in prayer, trying to show them the right.

  4. He ceased his rain of blows, grasped his adversary and tried to wrestle him down.

  5. I'm going to spend that damnable month in the woods, week-ends and all, and wrestle with this problem.

  6. I'd wrestle logs for a month and follow them down the Skookum to the log boom.

  7. To ask of his slow-moving brain that it question the foundations of the universe and wrestle with a social and psychological problem like this made the poor youth dumb with bewilderment.

  8. Thus until the small hours of the morning did the young girl wrestle with the conflicting forces in her soul.

  9. He could race on snowshoes, or wrestle when bound by a belt to his antagonist.

  10. Thousands of men of great native ability have been lost to the world because they have not had to wrestle with obstacles, and to struggle under difficulties sufficient to stimulate into activity their dormant powers.

  11. He remembered his wrestle with the grammar, and dictated.

  12. Our destiny We all must bear as lightly as we may, Since none may wrestle with necessity.

  13. Now fare ye well, thou and thy citizens; Still in war's wrestle may your foemen fall, And ever on your spears sit victory.

  14. Not until the breath leaves their bodies should we cease to labour and wrestle for their salvation.

  15. Unless a man commits the keeping of his soul to God, it is a question whether he can hold out and stand his ground, and wrestle with all temptations.

  16. These temptations, they awake, are aware of, are forced to wrestle with, and greatly to groan under.

  17. If thou feel thy thoughts begin to wrestle about this truth, and to struggle concerning this one against another; take heed of admitting of such a question, How can this thing be?

  18. They must wrestle to do this against the piteous appeals of innocence from one God-stricken, and who had never injured human being.

  19. Wrestle mightily with God in secret, as one that feels the burden of a great want.

  20. You may see him sometimes wrestle with a refractory jest for a minute or two together, and perhaps fail to throw it in the end.

  21. He can only see through glasses and has to wrestle with all sorts of inconveniences in consequence.

  22. The party are not done, and I have told them plainly that they must wrestle with the trouble and get it right for themselves.

  23. The Cross was the crisis of this world's history: the prince of this world measured himself for one final wrestle with the Son of God.

  24. Accustomed from boyhood to meet death in the wrestle with nature for daily sustenance, he was not subject to the apprehensions of a nervous dread.

  25. In Sparta as we have already noticed, girls, instead of being confined to the house, were brought up in the open air among the boys, trained in gymnastics and accustomed to run and wrestle naked.

  26. Let us wrestle together, to see which of us is the stronger.

  27. Come, sir, come; I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.

  28. They did entreat me to acquaint her of it; But I persuaded them, if they lov'd Benedick, To wish him wrestle with affection And never to let Beatrice know of it.

  29. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well.

  30. What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new Duke?

  31. If ever he go alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more.

  32. Left school before I had time to get it down and wrestle with it.

  33. Dogs seem able to wrestle through somehow without a tail," he said, "but I reckon a tail 'ud have a bit of a job getting along without a dog.

  34. The old man pushes him off, they wrestle in their bewilderment, and struggle like wild beasts.

  35. He was one of those who wrestle and fight against grief, and to see it thrust in his face by the impetus of another heart exasperated him, although he could say nothing.

  36. She felt that she herself would like to burst into a wild wail, and struggle and wrestle against fate with futile members, as the child fought against its mother with its fat legs in shoes too large, and its bemittened hands.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrestle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonize; battle; box; brawl; broil; buffet; clash; close; collide; combat; contend; contest; duel; fence; feud; fight; grapple; hassle; jostle; joust; meet; quarrel; riot; scramble; scuffle; skirmish; spar; strive; struggle; tilt; tourney; tussle; war; wrestle