wring
Example Sentences
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She wrings the steering wheel with her fists.
From Literature
If Warshow wrung a sizable reputation out of a small body of work, he also stuffed his very short life with experience.
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.
Netflix describes this as relaxing, which it very well may be to parents wrung out by their children loudly campaigning to watch.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
