Wrestling is an English word with synonyms like grappling or wrestle. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wrestling in a sentence
Related words
Wrestling meaning
- A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
- Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
- A wrestling match.
Synonyms of Wrestling
Using Wrestling
- The main meaning on this page is: A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. | Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”). | A wrestling match.
- Useful related words include: grappling, wrestle, grapple, hand-to-hand struggle.
- In the example corpus, wrestling often appears in combinations such as: pro wrestling, the wrestling, of wrestling.
Context around Wrestling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wrestling
- In this selection, "wrestling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pro, national, world, hall, open and fan stand out and add context to how "wrestling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the national wrestling hall of, 1980s pro wrestling focusing on, pro wrestling, world wrestling and wrestling team. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wrestling" sits close to words such as discover, breaks and hurricane, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wrestling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Midget wrestling further Midget wrestling can be traced to professional wrestling's carnival and vaudeville origins. (16 words)
The World Wrestling Council and International Wrestling Association are the largest wrestling promotions in the main island. (17 words)
United World Wrestling United World Wrestling (UWW) is the international governing body for the sport of wrestling. (17 words)
And, as crazy as it is, when you turn to someone who’s not a wrestling fan to start with and say, “Oh, by the way, I’m not only going to work in wrestling, I’m going to buy a wrestling company…” and have the full support of your family? (51 words)
The Queen of Villains takes us back to the chaotic, high-stakes world of 1980s pro wrestling, focusing on Joshi Proresu — the Japanese term for women's wrestling that cuts through gender divides in a way you won’t find in WWE or All Elite Wrestling. (46 words)
Dave Meltzer elaborated on an episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that AEW wants Cobb full-time, but he wants to keep wrestling for other promotions like New Japan and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla on top of his ROH dates for the time being. (42 words)
And, as crazy as it is, when you turn to someone who’s not a wrestling fan to start with and say, “Oh, by the way, I’m not only going to work in wrestling, I’m going to buy a wrestling company…” and have the full support of your family? (51 words)
Example sentences (20)
Banks rebranded herself as Mercedes Moné and signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling and Naomi took her talents to Impact Wrestling, wrestling as Trinity.
Born out of Japanese pro-wrestling, shoot wrestling began as an endeavor to bring the authenticity of MMA into choreographed pro-wrestling fights.
Corgan is a real wrestling fan, he has been since he was a kid, to the point that he owns the promotion company National Wrestling Alliance and often works full-time putting on matches and other pro wrestling events.
I never cared about wrestling’s TV ratings until the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling went head-to-head on Monday nights.
NXT was a little bit more the niche product for the hardcore wrestling fans, for the ones who love wrestling, who love more like the edgy stuff, love the technical detailed wrestling stuff.
And, as crazy as it is, when you turn to someone who’s not a wrestling fan to start with and say, “Oh, by the way, I’m not only going to work in wrestling, I’m going to buy a wrestling company…” and have the full support of your family?
Cena made his wrestling debut in 1999 and has since won over 16 wrestling championships all while endearing himself to fans in and out of the wrestling world.
Gable has been named to the USA Wrestling Hall of Fame, the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and is the name sake of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo.
Smokes has worked regularly for Wrestling Open and won the Wrestling Open Tag Team Championship with Brad Baylor at Thursdays Wrestling Open event.
The Queen of Villains takes us back to the chaotic, high-stakes world of 1980s pro wrestling, focusing on Joshi Proresu — the Japanese term for women's wrestling that cuts through gender divides in a way you won’t find in WWE or All Elite Wrestling.
Dave Meltzer elaborated on an episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that AEW wants Cobb full-time, but he wants to keep wrestling for other promotions like New Japan and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla on top of his ROH dates for the time being.
They are lifelong marks for the wrestling business and they cover all things wrestling and wrestling figure related from the fan’s perspective.
Walt Tolarchyk is a legend in the wrestling community, including membership in both the Ohio High School Wrestling and National Wrestling Ohio chapter halls of fame.
Which is why we've had wrestling plumbers, wrestling porn stars, and yes, thanks to TNA, wrestling penises.
Gradually, the predetermined nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, as prominent figures in the wrestling business (primarily WWE owner Vince McMahon ) began to publicly admit that wrestling was entertainment, not competition.
Midget wrestling further Midget wrestling can be traced to professional wrestling's carnival and vaudeville origins.
The World Wrestling Council and International Wrestling Association are the largest wrestling promotions in the main island.
United World Wrestling United World Wrestling (UWW) is the international governing body for the sport of wrestling.
Among the new programming is a new feature documentary on former Stampede Wrestling star Gama Singh and his son Raj Singh, who has worked in Impact Wrestling.
Angle acknowledged that the “high-flying action” is the type of wrestling fans want to see right now but hopes eventually wrestling will get back to the storytelling.
Phrases with wrestling
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with wrestling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pro wrestling 30×
- the wrestling 22×
- of wrestling 21×
- professional wrestling 21×
- wrestling and 15×
- world wrestling 13×
- wrestling team 10×
- wrestling in 10×
- impact wrestling 9×
- national wrestling 9×