verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
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And it didn't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him.
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A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It took firemen almost an hour to extricate the driver from the wrecked car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
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At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed.
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By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run; some sections, and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall.
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Gao Yang had an unobstructed view of the man extricating his foot from the pot.
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It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.
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They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.