The control of her revenues, of the system of taxation, was wrested from her.
The liberty of a Christian man which he had proclaimed was not such liberty as the peasants demanded and wrested to themselves when the revolt had reached its height.
The Popes wrestedto themselves the supreme spiritual and temporal power in the world.
There has never been a time when the Gospel and the grace of God have not been wrested to wicked purposes by insincere men, hypocrites, and bold spirits.
For the moment Holland lay crushed at the feet of Lewis, but the arrogant demands of the conqueror roused again the stubborn courage which had wrested victory from Alva and worn out the pride of Philip the Second.
Angelo, vigorously attacked various points; and on the heights above the Strada Giulia, two Spanish colours werewrested from them.
He died when his fame was at its height, and transmitted unquestioned to his son, that sovereignty which thrice had been wrested from him.
But the weapon was soon wrested from his enfeebled hands, and the Chippewa, dexterously turning himself so as to get the body of his enemy completely under him, now tried to scalp him alive.
All the material for this had been wrested away from others.
Twice Cumberland Gap was seized by the Rebels, and twice was it wrested away from them.
After twenty-seven years the port of Seleucia is wrested from the Egyptians by Antiochus the Great, and he so completely reverses the former successes of the King of the South as to conquer Syria as far as Gaza.
The Syrian King came, besieged, and took a well-fenced city--perhaps an allusion to the fact that he wrested Sidon from the Egyptians.
Security ushers ruin; proud contempt Of an enemy three parts vanquish'd, with desire And greediness of spoil, have often wrested A certain victory from the conqueror's gripe.
Since then, however, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have been wrested from earlier occupants and become Scandinavian.
The Flemish communes desired the peace necessary for the prosperity of their commerce; but patriotic anxieties wrested with material interests.
Instead the infantry, unsupported by artillery, charged across a plain swept by gun fire and wrested the sacred ruin from the enemy.
In the first place, as Roumania was larger and more populous than any of the Balkan states, the Roumanian nation could not sit still with folded arms while Bulgaria wrested this preeminence from her.
He wrested the whole of the Balkan Peninsula from the Byzantine Emperor, and took Belgrade, Bosnia, and Herzegovina from the King of Hungary.
Taku-shan, the keystone to their main line of defense, being now wrested from their hands, the Russians must have been very indignant and greatly disappointed.
And the peninsulawrested from us is once more under our care, the neglected graves of those who perished in the unsuccessful struggle ten years ago are once more being properly attended to.
That detachment who sailed home from Liaotung Peninsula a decade ago learned on their way that the peninsula was wrested from them.
Within a year that conquest had been entirely wrested from him; but the stone still remains at Westminster, little worn by the lapse of six centuries.
His conquest had been suddenly wrested from him, and he was intent on vengeance.
The archbishop built various hospitals and almshouses, and recovered twenty-five manors which had been wrested from the see of Canterbury.
And must not life itself find gain in the importance wrested from death?
Seville is wrestedfrom the Moors by St. Ferdinand of Leon and Castile.
An article was also inserted, by which Ottocar promised to deliver up to Ladislaus, King of Hungary, all the places wrested from him in that kingdom.
It is true the land of Canaan now belonged to the Israelites; but their conquests were of a precarious nature, and might again be wrested from them by a combined attack on the part of the dispossessed natives.
Jephthah knew well how to gather many brave youths round him, and with these he proceeded against the Ammonites, defeated them, and wrested twenty cities out of their hands.
The inspector of the palace--Shebna--appears to have gradually wrested all power from him.
Louis made no scruple in pleading the invalidity of the treaty of Conflans, because it had been wrested from him by undue influence.
This immediate and arrogant use of the rights he had wrested from the Duke of Lorraine alienated many who had been warm for Burgundy.
Shall the power of Congress over the treasury of the United States, hitherto never contested, be wrested from its possession, and be henceforward wielded by the Chief Magistrate?
And to support this disorganizing doctrine, the resolutions of 1798, were boldly and perseveringly appealed to, and attempted to be wrested from their real intent.
King of Prussia had violently wrested from her ancient dominions.
Henry's first care was to secure his ill-defined and ill-defended frontier, and to recover those border fortresses which had been wrested from Geoffrey by his enemies.
Nantes had been robbed from Britanny, Tours had been wrested from Blois, the southern borderland from Poitou.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
