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Definition of wrangle:

  • (noun) an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
  • (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively;
  • (verb) herd and care for; "wrangle horses"

Sentence Examples:

Unseemly wrangle.

Quarrelsome, wrangling (C.).

The wrangle was insufferable.

Political wrangling wasn't his forte.

They wrangled hotly in fierce undertone.

Then rose a snapping, snarling wrangle.

"Is this to be an unseemly wrangle?"

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

Their men gleefully joined in the wrangle.

Haller once saw an appearance of quarrelsome wrangling.

I had outgrown my taste for wrangles.

A wrangle is a confused and noisy altercation.

Helga and I still feigned to be wrangling.

These wrangles will surely depress investors' appetites.

They wrangle with each other in the porticoes.

Would the session not become an interminable wrangle?

This leads to acrimonious wrangling and consequent delay.

At the same time he abhorred controversy and wrangling.

The wrangle of political parties over a paltry issue.

Wrangle snorted shrilly and bolted into the sage.

The stupid workers wrangled and snarled over jobs.

Without, indecision and tumult wrangled among innumerable voices.

Then there ensued a subdued wrangle in the yard.

They are wrangling and consulting a confounded time together.

They fell to wrangling again more viciously than before.

They wrangle, wench; we are more kind than they.

Then ensued a wordy wrangle, not necessary to detail.

She scolded, coaxed, advised, wrangled, and uniformly triumphed.

She listened absently while the two men wrangled.

Of course, they should never condescend to vulgar wrangling.

Harris, wrangling with another workman, was now seen approaching.

The sparrows wrangled desperately in the road, defying perspiration.

Lo you now, if our wrangling have disturbed him a jot!

It turns the desires of knowledge into an itch of wrangling.

Well, they wrangled and wrangled; then they parted asunder.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

His manager was upstairs, wrangling with the carnival treasurer.

The moment the subject was broached, the wrangle began.

A room all dirt and filth, brats squalling and wrangling...

There were shrill, boyish voices, laughing, shouting, wrangling, without pause.

An obstinate and wrangling Board could have crippled him cruelly.

Where once reigned peace and quietness, existed wrangling and strife.

The result is an atmosphere surcharged with wrangling and spite.

Penrose, was engaged outside in a wrangle with a taxi-cab driver!

At all events, no unseemly family wrangles came under my eye.

They wrangle from morning till night, these beautiful, high-tempered aristocrats.

We never heard any wrangling, nor witnessed any street brawls.

At least, there is no need to continue this very undignified wrangling.

At any rate, he delighted in hearing them snarl and wrangle.

They were tired, and under the guise of unselfishness they wrangled.

He artfully told tales showing the danger of wrangling at feasts.

He had sworn, wrangled, and blustered, and now he was alone.

The dogs stopped wrangling with one another, and looked on wistfully.

He was used to wrangling and boisterous striving for what he wanted.

The horseman was too old a campaigner to waste time in wrangling.

Wrangle speechless with indignation and bitterly repenting her recent indecision.

Much wrangling ensued, and a policeman was called upon the field.

Who would live amidst perpetual wrangling, and scolding, and mutual reproaches?

On this point clerk and layman had many a bitter wrangle.

The conjugal wrangle having been checked, the meal proceeded gaily enough.

Old King Brady listened to all this wrangling with much edification.

More and more repellent to Alma did these almost daily wrangles become.

The wrangling of theologians has very little to do with true religion.

Mentally and physically prostrate he sat shivering while his ministers wrangled.

Therefore, we agreed to leave this conundrum for future statesmen to wrangle over.

The annual budget wrangle is the effect of our devious methods of taxation.

The clever masters rode in automobiles and did not wrangle and snarl.

Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation.

Wrangling getting a little high, when Speaker interposed, threatened to name Tim.

Marsh was the cook, and the cause of many a matrimonial wrangle.

He had to fight and wrangle and grapple with life as he did.

I will confess I quail before the dusty possibilities of this three-cornered wrangle.

A shame on you to mar a day like this with your boyish wrangles!

He exclaimed, "we have wrangling enough as it is on board the old ship."

When several are together, the most violent wrangles occur over their booty.

Why, then, should we squabble and wrangle about what man has produced?

When several are feeding together, most violent wrangles occur over the booty.

A man wrangled a nondescript drove of horses and cows in the rear.

More than three-fourths of the wrangling warriors in the group seemed backing him.

This idle wrangling accomplishes naught, and a thousand weighty matters await our attention.

Let scholars and theologians wrangle; we women have nothing to do with it.

Much wrangling then ensued as to the proper method of navigating the vessel.

There seems to be a great crowd wrangling and jostling to get in.

For years, geographers wrangled regarding the point at which the day began.

All day long it was nothing but wrangle, snarl, bark and yelp.

All this part resounded with obscene abuse, and songs, and violent wrangling.

They hired other stupid ones to do the wrangling and snarling for them.

His entire administration, marked by unseemly wrangling, produced only two measures of importance.

Then our national council would not be disgraced by wrangling, pugnacious, reckless demagogues.

He gets down on the muddy pave and wrangles with the "locus" preachers.

To-day, with a handful of facts, collectors and connoisseurs wrangle together over theories.

High aloft in the sky thousands of blown rooks wrangled like lost men.

With this resolution Billy charged with one mighty butt into the wrangling Oriental.

They wrangled among themselves until they became quite heated in this struggle of unselfishness.

We were frequently acrimonious, I fear, but our small wrangles ended with the evening.

Sometimes her friends "gently wrangled," and bantered her with laughter and love.

Then followed another of those unseemly wrangles we have had so often to record.

Were it the sound of wrangling, my weak head would throb instantly with pain.

You wrangled and quarrelled like vultures at your meals, each demanding the largest share.

And they began again to wrangle so violently that their words became quite unintelligible.