wrung
Example Sentences
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Guthrie has been seen in a couple of Instagram videos since then looking exhausted and emotionally wrung out as she and her siblings try to communicate with whoever has their mother.
From Los Angeles Times
There was widespread exuberance in the gold market prior to its plunge, and only a small part of that exuberance has been wrung out of the market.
From MarketWatch
In the square, they wrung out their clothes and assessed each other for bruises, and for a moment, the giddy pleasure of not being dead transcended everything.
From Literature
Like he was a rag being slowly wrung out by hands twisting in two different directions.
From Literature
If Warshow wrung a sizable reputation out of a small body of work, he also stuffed his very short life with experience.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
