How do you use the word "wrangle" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "wrangle" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "wrangle": We are involved in a legal wrangle over payments. This contract dispute turned into a legal wrangle.

Wrangle Meaning

/ˈɹæŋɡəl/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

verbFollowed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.

Sentence Examples

We are involved in a legal wrangle over payments.

This contract dispute turned into a legal wrangle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

row quarrel haggle

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The committee members always ____ about the budget every time they meet.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The workers had to ____ with the heavy boxes for Several hours to get them into the small warehouse today.

Word Origin & History

The verb is derived from Middle English wranglen, wrangle (“to contend with (someone) in a test of strength; (figuratively) to make misleading arguments to entrap”); from a Middle Dutch or Middle Low German word related to Middle Dutch wrangen and Middle Low German wrangen (“to cause an uproar; to struggle, wrestle”) (whence Low German wrangeln (“to wrangle”)), related to Middle Dutch wringen (“to twist; to wrest; to wring; to struggle, wrestle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze; to twist; to wring”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Danish vringle (“to twist, entangle”) * German rangeln (“to wrestle”)

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]" — 1624, William Simons, “Captaine Smiths Iourney to Pamavnkee”, in Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, 3rd booke, page 75:

"[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]" — 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXVIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 177–178:

"When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck." — 1962 January 12, “Cinema: The Second Time Around [film review]”, in Roy Alexander, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2010:

"Wrangling a chaotic group of five-year-olds is unnerving enough without the added stress of a famous NHLer [Brian Gionta] in the room helping lace his son’s skates." — 2010 October 3, Sean Gordon, “Gionta settles in, stands out”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2021:

"To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?" — 1692 (indicated as 1693), Cotton Mather, “Enchantments Encountred”, in The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. […], Boston, Mass.: […] Benjamin Harris, →OCLC:

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