wrung

Example Sentences

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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 The Wall Street Journal

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

From MarketWatch

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

From Salon

The beauty of the collection is that each entry, while varying in quality, feels authentic — wrung with pleasure or pain from this wildly talented artist’s commitment to life on earth.

From Los Angeles Times