How to Use wrangle in a Sentence

wrangle

1 of 2 verb

• They were wrangling over money.
• He made a living wrangling horses.
• The city was on fire, emotions ran hot, and [star] Tupac [Shakur] was hard to wrangle!
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
• Just drop the box next to your bed, cut it open, and wrangle the mattress into place.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 19 Jan. 2023
• Wow Brow Gel will wrangle your brows into place and hold them there.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• The city has wrangled over prevailing wage rules for months.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• After chasing the caiman through the brush, Mr. Metzger was able to wrangle a snare around its snout.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Finally, a way to wrangle all of his chargers and cords.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2022
• The design features a durable bungee leash that’s strong enough to wrangle dogs larger than 30 pounds.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 July 2022
• One 14-year-old girl, already a mother of twins, talked to me while trying to wrangle her two boys.
  — Phoebe Gates, Vogue, 1 July 2022
• For years, China and the U.S. have wrangled over many of the same questions at hand this week with a series of breakthroughs and setbacks.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 20 July 2023
• Parton was able to wrangle quite a few other A-list guests on her massive, 30-track project.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Lartigue then managed to wrangle the fish onto the bank.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
• While the parents tried to wrangle their little ones for a sweet pic, Miles looked away from the camera while baby Wren let out a wail.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• The idea was to wrangle Trump supporters to gather in key swing states to cast ballots for him instead.
  — Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
• While one parent wrangles the kid outside, the other can wrap uneaten food and take care of the bill.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• This isn't the first time New Jersey residents had to wrangle a bull into place.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Blazek allegedly retrieved it for her but lost her grip, and had to wrangle it a second time.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2023
• The glossy brioche bun is big enough to wrangle the contents without overwhelming them.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The Associated Press Today is the day to wrangle these fires.
  — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• The United States and China are not alone in trying to wrangle this large and important group of countries.
  — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• For months, the two sides have wrangled over whether the Jane Doe accuser could proceed anonymously.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• Officials were able to wrangle the canine, per the outlet.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• They're lined with microfleece to provide warmth and comfort, and the side zipper allows for easy on and off instead of wrangling the laces with each wear.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2023
• House Republicans are still wrangling over who will be the next speaker.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
• It's taken him, Gendrich and a neighbor to wrangle it, and even then somebody or some wall still gets scratched or poked by one of its sizable thorns.
  — Kendra Meinert, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2023
• As Bethlehem Haile tries to wrangle a group of 30 girls into a practice room, her voice is nearly drowned out by the sound of chatter.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• There are too many other tasks that take up her time: working on the book, promoting the record, wrangling her band together to plays shows.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• Ellams’s world bursts with ideas about myth and sport, and his play can barely wrangle all of the lyricism and lore into compelling stage action.
  — Vulture, 31 July 2023
• Eventually, the group wrangles the feline into a pillowcase and heads to the lobby to find the pet food and water.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023

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wrangle

2 of 2 noun

• They had a bitter wrangle over custody of their children.
• One major wrangle is likely to be over how much Britain will have to pay the EU to leave.
  — Jill Lawless, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
• The wrangle with the regulator is the latest twist in the battle for control of the Dutch paint and coatings maker.
  — Ellen Proper, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
• But Suez has been opposed from the beginning and a legal wrangle has ensued.
  — Joshua Kirby, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2020
• This is the latest wrangle between Worrell and the heads of local law enforcement agencies.
  — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• The two reported their family wrangles at our stations a number of times.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• The club's ownership wrangle continues to be a point of contention, with funding for a potential summer spending spree still very much up in the air.
  — SI.com, 15 May 2018
• That's unlike the present because the current wrangle isn't really about a policy issue at all.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• So, every potential Stanton deal will be a wrangle, balancing the value of the prospects offered versus how much of the $295-million the Marlins will eat.
  — Thomas Boswell, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The legal wrangle revolved around a 1988 contract signed by Lydon, Jones and Cook that said licenses for the music could be granted by agreement from the majority of the band.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 23 Aug. 2021
• The contents of that call were probably part of the whistleblower’s complaint, which itself is now at the centre of a wrangle between the White House and Congress.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
• But long before that wrangle, hundreds of mothers had already faced the agonizing choice: Keep the son or daughter but stay away forever, or abandon the child to come home.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• But the wrangle over Russian energy is certain to continue.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
• But Tuchel has been told that Rabiot — who is in a disagreement with sporting director Antero Henrique — is not to be selected because of a contract wrangle that has dragged on .
  — Jerome Pugmire, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2019
• To some, the wrangle is emblematic of a larger rivalry between Italy’s regions, with the south, which includes Naples, complaining that again it is being eclipsed by the powerful north.
  — Cecilia Butini, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• In a protracted wrangle over Michael's estate, Joe was ultimately cut out of executorship and any share of his most famous son's earnings.
  — Chris Morris, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Legal wrangles and congressional scrutiny of Mr. Akhmetshin suggest a contentious side to his work.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• The yearlong wrangle prompted multiple lawsuits as well as charges of heavy handed tactics by the port, including the canceling of the city’s long-term lease for its marina property.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• President Trump claimed in the early hours of Wednesday morning that his opponents were trying to cheat him of election victory, setting the scene for a bitter wrangle as votes were still being counted.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2020
• Toward the end of the disco era, Veltman and his club entered a protracted wrangle with Valero Energy, a corporation that had moved into a nearby building and wanted to buy out the Country to build a parking lot on the site.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• Although an ugly personal wrangle forms the bathetic close of their joint story, Conan Doyle’s integrity shines through.
  — Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• The wrangle escalated as Big City Coffee shut down the campus branch, and other student government leaders impeached Cantu.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022
• There will be more Wagner, and there will be an extended wrangle on the Covenant, which, in its isolated action, is the movie’s one lively scene (despite also being flecked with overtly portentous touches).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 May 2017
• The series also touches on true-life and hugely conflictive cases of the dispossession of Arab families of their homes and may be inspired by the legal wrangle over the Petra and Imperial Hotels….
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022
• Well, there are actually three insurance companies involved, and maybe a fourth yet to be drawn into what has become, for Enriquez, a disheartening wrangle.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Following demonstrations and lengthy legal wrangles, the statue is one of four monuments relating to the Confederacy that's in the process of being removed by the Louisiana city.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 11 May 2017
• However, Uber has already gone through numerous legal wrangles with TfL and—unlike Taxify—remains up and running.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017
• Mr St Pier believes that Parliament would have to pass primary legislation to avoid a constitutional wrangle, since Guernsey has the right to govern its domestic affairs.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2018
• Japan and South Korea also recently become embroiled in their own trade wrangle over historical abuses during Tokyo’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
  — Time, 15 Jan. 2020
• There’s a yearly wrangle as Congress, the Pentagon and the administration hammer out military priorities and funding.
  — al, 2 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Jun 2024