wrung out
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 • Feb. 9, 2026
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 • Feb. 2, 2026
Netflix describes this as relaxing, which it very well may be to parents wrung out by their children loudly campaigning to watch.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
Others actively seek out practices where money buys the kind of timely, personalized, and coordinated care that has largely been wrung out of the U.S. healthcare system.
From Barron's • Sep. 25, 2025
When all the clothes had been soaked and scrubbed, then wrung out and laid on the sand, Dicey waded out to the rock where Sammy sat.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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