It was nerved by such a hymn that the sailors of Queen Elizabeth swept the main, that the Puritans wrestled with principalities and powers, that a handful of moors-men levelled despotism and tyranny to the ground.
Her drugged brain fell asleep as it wrestledwith its fears.
Alarm and resentment wrestled for her heart; they prospered alternately.
Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.
Jacob was left alone, and wrestledwith a man there until the breaking of the day.
Once more, the Second-in-Command set himself to soothe the Colonel, and wrestled with him for half an hour.
The women sat up nursing the women, and the men turned to and tended the bachelors who were down, and we wrestled with those typhoid cases for fifty-six days, and brought them through the Valley of the Shadow in triumph.
Signor Diego, you may have read but little; but you have meditated to much profit, and must have wrestled like some great athlete with all that baser self which the divine Plato has told us how to master.
I have wrestled with nothing; followed only my soul's blind impulses.
When a boy wrestled with him in earnest, and threw him, he was not "seen to whine or weep at the hurt.
After having fixed on his subjects, he always added the model of the composition; and thus boldly wrestled with the great authors of antiquity.
Billy wrestled manfully, and when he was exhausted he boosted Terry, and then both of them helped Alice, to whom they awarded a prize of her own doll.
When darkness gathered over the brave armies fighting for the nation's life, this strong man, in the early morning, knelt and wrestled in prayer with Him who holds in his hand the fate of empires.
When darkness gathered over the brave armies fighting for the nation's life, this strong man in the early morning knelt and wrestled in prayer with him who holds in his hand the fate of empires.
So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
We Hungarians wrestled for centuries with Turkey, and now we are friends, true friends, and natural allies against a common enemy.
I wrestled the controls away from him today, but the next time he grabs them like that, I'll just beat him over the head with the fire extinguisher and knock him out.
All my life I had been keenly aware of contradictions in life all around me, and all my life they had worried me and I had wrestled with them, attempting to resolve them in my own way.
He wrestled ceaselessly, through four black and dreadful purgatorial years, wherein God was cleansing the sin of His people as by fire.
He wrestled but perfunctorily with the theses of the Bible commentators, for Moses Ansell was so absorbed in translating and enjoying the intellectual tangles, that Solomon had scarce more to do than to play the part of chorus.
When Elijah wrestled with the prophets of Baal, where did victory rest?
At the same time, Judaism awards the palm of victory to him who has wrestled with sin and conquered it by his own will.
How different, he thought suddenly, from the vigorous figure which hadwrestled with him in the forest.
Although John and the Hermit had never spoken together of the King since that terrible day, the boy thought often about him, and about the young Prince with whom he had wrestled for the life of the bear.
There was a stir among the nobles, and John saw the young man with whom he had wrestled a short time before spur his horse forward to the King's side.
For twenty years he had wrestled ceaselessly with the panting crowd.
It was that force with which she would have very soon to reckon, that overwhelming, all-consuming power that had wrestled so victoriously in Wentworth's defence.
As to the former stage, the language of the narrative is to be noted, 'There wrestled a man with him.
There are many stories about Manabush, and you have heard how he wrestled with Mondamin and obtained the gift of corn.
Gone was the man who had wrestled with such strength.
In truth, I'm just eleven years old, but in all of Jerusalem there isn't a single fourteen year old that I haven't wrestled to the ground!
If Thar were wrestled to the ground, they were supposed to make the loudest possible clamor.
Just as he hadwrestled old Eppstein down to the ground, he firmly held the young Hebron Lion as he called out to the musicians: "Now you can sound your notes of triumph for him!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrestled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
