wring

Example Sentences

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The speculative leverage has been wrung out of this market for months.

From MarketWatch

This was a president rejecting lame-duck status, demonstrating he intends to wring the life out of every day remaining to him in the Oval Office.

From The Wall Street Journal

Netflix describes this as relaxing, which it very well may be to parents wrung out by their children loudly campaigning to watch.

From Salon

This latest creation is a dud, a banal sitcom figure surrounded by wacky characters who can’t wring any laughs out of Mr. Brooks’s musty script.

From The Wall Street Journal

Elizabeth of the big glasses is actually wringing her hands.

From Literature