Example sentences for: wrangle

How can you use “wrangle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Times does not spare the "most embarrassing" details of what it portrays as a misadventure, including the fact that a 29-year-old commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army stood Dole up, leaving him to wrangle over the telephone with another guerilla leader.

  • Deep inside the WP is a report that casts an interesting light on the recent U.N. inspection wrangle with Iraq.

  • The LAT leads with the emerging diplomatic wrangle over whether or not international sanctions against Saddam Hussein should continue.

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • This is not, however, the place to embark on a disputatious wrangle leading nowhere.


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