verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
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Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
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Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back.
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Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.
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He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.
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Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power, not a populist-based overthrow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A security guard managed to wrest the gun from the man.
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The Democrats failed in wresting control of Congress from the Republicans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back.
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I stood up, wresting myself out of this nightmare.
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In their view, the automatic machinery was unreliable and the management was wrong to attempt to wrest controls from the shop-floor.
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Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.
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Only the inner satellites were its permanent property; the Sun could never wrest them from its grasp.
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That alliance promised the prospect of a kingdom in the areas which they wrested from Ottoman control.
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The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds.
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The thought of reclaiming what had been wrongfully wrested from him began to sough through every fevered fiber of his being.