wrestle with

Example Sentences

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Both Clark and Mary wrestle with their individual traumas, but the specific points of their histories are explored with less interest than the Backrooms themselves.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

Camus used his journals to wrestle with the ideas he explored in books such as “The Stranger” and “The Myth of Sisyphus.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

But as Bright continues to wrestle with the emotions of her big announcement, she says she has been unable to read it all.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Once we’ve shaken hands on this unavoidable tension, we can wrestle with Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” an open-hearted biopic of Jackson, extending from his boyhood in Gary, Ind., to the late-’80s tour for “Bad.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

I did not want to wrestle with Horse; he was tougher and bigger than I. But my father had often said that a man of the llano does not run from a fight.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya