Sentences with 'wrested'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wrested and other words derived from it.
• « Pyrrhus was a Hellenistic king who had already wrested control of a good swathe of Greece from the Antigonid dynasty in Greece. »
• « While the United States was not a major imperial power per se (although it wrested control of the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and wielded considerable power in Central America), it nevertheless played an important role in imperialism. »
• « Russia wrested control of the Caucasus region from Persia (permanently, as it turned out) in 1813, and subsequently imposed capitulation agreements on Persia that were a direct parallel to those that so hobbled the Ottomans to the west. »