1. The National Front coalition says it wrested control of the Perak state legislature after three opposition lawmakers switched loyalties.
2. The gold tasted doubly sweet because China had wrested its men's team title from Japan a day ago.
3. One reason is that contemporary Chinese fiction in English translation emerges into a vacuum, artificially wrested from its modern antecedents.
4. She was restrained by Secret Service agents who wrested the gun away from her and led the president to safety.
5. A feisty taxi driver wrested a gun from his assailant when the robber was distracted, only to find out the weapon was a toy.
6. Cao Cao wrested control in the dying years of the Han Dynasty, and went about suppressing other warlords.
7. But after the 1991 Gulf War, it wrested control of mainly Kurdish northern Iraq from Baghdad.
8. Hobbs told investigators that Krystal pulled the knife to defend her friend, and he wrested it away.