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How to use the word wrestled in a Sentence?

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I run over and we wrestled a minute together, me trying to get the gun away from him, then the gun kind of went off above his head and I got scared to death and I ran to my truck and took off.

Curtis Edward Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the very beginning, callers talked about seeing murders, the first few weeks of the line, someone called and they said that they robbed and killed homosexuals, which corresponded to what was actually happening in New York City at the time. That bothered him from the very beginning… It was a real moral dilemma for Allan. He wrestled with this for a very long time.

Marissa Bridge

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The idea that I wouldn't stand up for these athletes is ridiculous, i feel sorry for these guys, the fact that they aren't telling the truth. I mean these are guys I trained with, these are guys I worked out with, I ran with, wrestled with, and the idea that now they are saying what they are, it's just not true.

Jim Jordan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I just wrestled my best, and I kind of dominated the match, if I'm being honest.

Heaven Fitch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What is the right thing for the car to do when something bad is about to happen ? it would be nice if we wrestled with these questions in 2020, rather than 2030.

Charles Isbell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This morning, the President had a call with James Shaw Jr. to commend his heroic actions and quick thinking last month at a Waffle House in Tennessee, mr. Shaw saved lives when he wrestled a gun from an active shooter who had open fired.

White House

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He saw the gunman looking at his rifle. At that point, the shots had stopped. So he decided to rush the gunman, actually wrestled that assault rifle away, tossed it over the counter. At that point, the gunman then fled.

Don Aaron

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The shots had stopped so he decided to rush the gunman, actually wrestled that assault rifle away, tossed it over the counter and, at that point, the gunman fled.

Don Aaron

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The flight attendant wrestled the stroller away from the woman, who was sobbing, holding one baby with the second baby in a car seat on the ground next to her, he stormed by me with the stroller and I said something like, 'What are you doing? You almost hit that baby!' And he yelled at me to 'stay out of it!' just like he does in the video.

Olivia Morgan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Every administration has wrestled with this pig, trying to figure out what to do.

Timothy Phillips

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He has rejected the decisions of juries that wrestled with the facts and the law before unanimously imposing the death penalty, disregarded a long line of decisions made by Pennsylvania and federal judges, ignored the will of the Legislature, and ultimately turned his back on the silenced victims of cold-blooded killers.

The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Jimmy Stewart

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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