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wrangle - use in sentences
Converse of object
- continue: There is a continuing wrangle between mental health charity Sane and the Department of Health about funding for the helpline Saneline.
- follow: Then followed an hour's wrangle, with countless speeches as to the candidate for the Vise Presidency.
Preposition: over
- future: A long-running wrangle over the future of the Polhill campus at de Montfort University reaches planners this coming week.
- right: In North America wrangles over land rights would lead to both claimants erecting fences on both sides of the disputed area.
Adjective modifier
- legal: There's going to be a legal wrangle anyway, whatever route is chosen.
- internal: After an internal wrangle, it's selling its brewery site, ending 200 years of operations.
- political: It includes references to some Cardiff shipping, the Merthyr Riots and the Bute v John Wood political wrangles, among other things.
- long: We don't believe in a long legal wrangle.
- protracted: After a protracted wrangle with his record company, it is now time to move ahead.
- long-running: A long-running wrangle over the future of the Polhill campus at de Montfort University reaches planners this coming week.
Noun used with modifier
- transfer: Former City player Josh Low is in the middle of a transfer wrangle.
- planning: He has been embroiled in a planning wrangle with neighbors over an extractor fan at the premises, called Fifteen.
- copyright: Allowed TfL to become involved in a futile and wasteful copyright wrangle with LCC over the LCN maps.
- contract: In the words of the theme song, which sadly got excluded due to contract wrangles, ' you should be mine ' .
Followed by an intransitive particle
- over: Leaving them to rot, for the dogs to wrangle over.
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