Thesaurus results for WRESTLE

wrestle

verb

ˈre-səl

as in to fight

to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie

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Recent Examples of wrestle The pic is an adaption of Max Porter’s novel about a grieving father wrestling with the sudden death of his wife while also raising their young children. —

Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025 Steve Martin and the other Only Murders writers try to give him at least one big slapstick set piece a season, just as a reminder that the guy who once wrestled with Tomlin for control of the same body in the 1984 comedy All of Me still has some looseness in his joints. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025 Still, against all odds, Hardy is still wrestling to this day. —

Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 Incoming Trump officials are now wrestling with the logistics — to say nothing of the financial burden — of rounding up and removing that population size. —

Christopher White, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wrestle