Wrested in a sentence

A building in Falluja that was destroyed as Iraqi fighters wrested control of the city from the Islamic State in 2016.

But AJ faces huge pressure to get back to winning ways after his credentials were questioned in his damaging defeats to the Ukrainian, who wrested his three heavyweight titles from him.

CPM parliamentarians used to represent both the seats prior to 2019, when the BJP wrested them from the Left party, just a year after forming a government in the state.

Delirious and the henchmen, who actually wrested in a trench coat, attacked both babyface teams.

He’d refused, and wrested the gun from Alex.

In the first four Assembly elections, the seat, then known as Hubballi Rural Assembly Constituency, was won by the Congress and it was in 1978 that SR Bommai of Janata Party wrested power from the Congress.

It has been more than 11 weeks since Ukrainian forces wrested back the village of Kalynivske, in Kherson province, from Russian occupation.

One need not be reminded of the chaotic military withdrawal the Taliban wrested from the world’s superpower through their tough negotiations.

One Record reporter suffered an injury to a finger when Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody wrested her cellphone out of her hand, according to the report.

The Congress not only managed to retain all four seats (Afzalpur, Chittapur, Jewargi, and Kalaburagi North constituencies) but also wrested three, Aland, Kalaburagi South, and Sedam, from the BJP.

The Houthi militia captured Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in 2015 and have since wrested control of most of the country despite a US-backed, Saudi-led coalition military campaign to beat back their gains.

The players traded breaks early in the first set before Sabalenka wrested the lead, breaking Kasatkina to love thanks to a series of aggressive forehand shots in the fourth game.

Yet that also could be said of Estonia, as Putin noted earlier this summer when he compared his invasion of Ukraine to Peter the Great's victory in the Great Northern War, which wrested much of modern Ukraine from Swedish control.

Gandhi’s oath was followed by Kishori Lal’s, who wrested back the family bastion of Amethi from former Union minister Smriti Irani.

He wrested the seat from the BJP in the 1991 elections.

Shi’s teenage son eventually wrested the weapon out of his father’s hand shortly before midnight.

The 2019 elections witnessed a significant power shift in the Hooghly district, which was a Communist stronghold for decades until the TMC wrested it in 2009.

The Congress, having wrested power in a second southern state after Karnataka months earlier, got a fresh breath of life from its 64-seat win.

The high ground must be wrested away from our self-styled “warriors,” who aim to keep the factories of death churning, no matter the cost to humanity and the planet.

BJP had stunned the Trinamool Congress in 2019 Lok Sabha polls as it wrested 18 parliamentary constituencies, coming up with its best-ever performance in the state.