Before his rule was wrenched from him, he died by the hand of an assassin.
Before Quintus could shake him off he was surrounded by soldiers, his weapon was wrenched from him, and six or eight sinewy hands held his arms and shoulders with the grip of a vice.
Finally, the child in tatters gave a supreme tug and wrenched the string from the other's hands.
But the expression burned his mind as sealing-wax burns the palm, and fascinated, stupefied, he actually watched the progress of the man's thought toward the point where a knife would be wrenched from its sheath.
He wrenched an ax from its cleft in a chopping-block and caved in the top of the coffin with the first blow.
She wrenched herself from his grasp and faced him, her face filled with outraged fury.
Mortified and angered beyond endurance, I for the first time addressed the spirits,--wrenched for the moment into a profound belief that they must be spirits indeed.
In the still unburnt rubbish at the right, some one had wrenched an opening within a foot of Sene's face.
Then swinging the handle high, with his body wrenched violently forward and the strength of his good right arm put forth, he brought it down.
The last word was hardly out of his mouth when the burly Chinaman hurled himself at the Russian's knees from behind; he fell backwards; the revolver was wrenched from his hand, and the Chinaman held him pinned to the platform.
The arm was wrenched away, then Sowinski's voice asked whether he had heard anything.
His clothes had been torn to tatters in the struggle, his pigtail wrenched from his head.
It was as if he had wrenched a plank from one drowning.
It was far from village or town when at last Christopher wrenched his mind from the mechanical power that held it prisoner, and realised that town or no town, bed or no bed, he must stop.
She might call the man she wrenched her hand from, Egoist; jilt, the world would call her.
He wrenched the door open, and went out on that, leaving her cold and sick with dread.
But Mr. Caryll suddenly wrenched the hand away from the fellow and the wrist out of Lord Rotherby's grip.
But he had itwrenched from his hands ere he could launch it.
His Grace of Wharton had wrenched away the sword from Rotherby, and mastered by an effort his own impulse to use it upon the murderer.
The bribe, wrenched from another, was, of course, indignantly rejected, but one wonders what the secret feelings of the Hapsburgs may be toward the Hohenzollerns.
In the matter of property the magnanimous descendants of Frederick and William the Great will restore the machines which cannot be wrenched from their concrete beds, and the walls of the manufactories.
But before I could utter further word the poor girl was wrenchedfrom my grasp, and the Cossack was smothering her face with his hot nauseous kisses.
Then, before any of us were aware of her intention, she again turned, wrenched herself free, and rushed back into the room where the General was still sitting.
It might almost be said that she was the normal life of the family, continuing from where sorrow had wrenched David and 'Thusia and Alice and the grandfather from it, and, by mute example, urging them to live again.
The rupture that wrenched American Presbyterianism into antagonistic parts in the year of David's birth had been of more vital importance than bread and meat to David's father.
The same accident had wrenched his left shoulder so that his left arm seemed to drag behind him and he walked bent forward with an ugly sidewise gait.
On the floor of the study was a piece of lace collar, evidently wrenched from her gown.
The truth, the deep-down truth, was out at last; Adelaide had wrenched it from herself.
Kerry caught it deftly, and in a very few minutes had wrenched away the rough planking nailed over one of the lower windows, without making very much noise.
Stepping rapidly to the green transparent veil behind which Kazmah was seated, she wrenched it asunder and leapt toward the figure in the black chair.
But Sergeant Burton, who carried the second lantern, crossed the room and wrenched the green draperies bodily from their fastenings.
Another and another Tantor wrenched from the body of the ape-man, throwing them to right and to left, where they lay either moaning or very quiet, as death came slowly or at once.
In the impact of the charge, Tarzan's knife was wrenched from his hand and then Toog closed with him.
With a mighty effort the ape-man wrenched himself loose, and as he slid to the ground, the dream gorilla turned ferociously upon him, seized him once more and buried great fangs in a sleek, brown shoulder.
There was an instant's struggle before the fish wrenched itself loose from the bleeding member, and then it only swung off a little, staring with its bold black eyes at the intruder, as if it wished to stay for further question.
Curious to know what it was, he probed again, and the stick was wrenched from his hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrenched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
