Sentences with 'wresting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wresting and other words derived from it.
• « Italy, which had joined with Britain and France against Germany and Austria in the hope of wresting territory from the Austrians, received very little land after the war. Thus, for Mussolini and many other Italians, the war had been particularly futile. »
• « Following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, American settlers migrated to Texas in even greater numbers, intent on wresting land from the vulnerable new Mexican nation to create a new American slave state. »