Sentence examples for wrest himself from from inspiring English sources

Alas, he couldn't seem to wrest himself from the nightmare of unjust prosecution that was aiming to brand him a felon with a long prison sentence.

Why should anyone be interested in the birth of something that never dies?" McGowan, at the center of the novel, is a showpiece of self-invention, a poor French Canadian kid from Massachusetts who made up a name and background -- a man who, like television, had wrested himself from history.

When Hagen attempts to wrest it from them, he drowns.

They wrest cash from the state to fund the yeshivas.

Her book tracks her attempts to wrest free from it.

That's why they want to wrest Randy Johnson from Arizona.

East crown for four seasons, ever since Rollins predicted they would wrest it from the Mets.

How do we wrest meaning from the unexpected death of someone close to us?

The quarrel had originated over the King's wish to wrest taxes from the French clergy.

"I was trying to wrest wisdom from these wisdomless piles of information," Bakkila said.

Armed opposition fighters are trying to wrest it from the government's control.