Wrest in a sentence as a verb

Marconi had the legal and financial resources to wrest the patent for radio from Tesla.

For them, it was a message in the form of another low blow from this high pressure accelerator trying to wrest away 50% of their business.

We "officially" abandoned GC in the language itself last October, and we're still trying to wrest the last vestiges of its use out of the compiler itself.

Apple also wrest control of the end-user experience from the carriers, preventing them from forcing their ****-ware onto their customers.

It seems like the quality level maintained by Steve Jobs is quickly deteriorating in favour of business moves designed to wrest more control off Google.

Sometimes in the middle of a game of Diplomacy it seems worth destroying a friendship if it means finding a way to wrest control of Serbia from an opponent.

It makes it sound like Apple was entirely benevolent in wanting to wrest control from the carriers but Apple, like any other corporation, wants to make money.

Occupy movement at its heart is a fight to wrest control of the world from baby-boomers, who are now old and selfishly willing to burn everyone else to protect their benefits.

Whether or not the publishers continue to be in business is not relevant, as long as we are able to wrest away the literature which they are holding hostage.

My Reputation in my Calling I will honourably guard; but I will in no way go about to compass or wrest judgement or gratification from any one with whom I may deal.

However there is one app that Samsung includes where you can wrest your hand on the device and it does not start drawing blobs on the page but sadly it's not the app I want to use to take notes.

The movement to undermine US freedom and privacy has been focussed and well-funded since 9/11, under both Bush and Obama and involving more than just the NSA. If it's the work of idiots, they are very hard-working, successful idiots as they've managed to wrest considerable power from a nation of hundreds of millions, assuming control of the world's foremost superpower.

Wrest definitions

verb

obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"