wrung

Example Sentences

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Wrung out like a dishrag, terrified that the pain would return and deeply suspicious of my internal organs, but otherwise OK.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Wrung out, inching toward bankruptcy, proud yet humbled, and yearning for a role that’s worthy of his self-regard, this avatar looks and sounds like the real deal.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

Wrung out and exhausted for standing up for their beliefs, a procession of employees quit or were fired.

From The Verge • Sep. 29, 2020

Wrung out perhaps by the arduous work of watching movies all day and night at the 65th , they have begun to boo and jeer louder and more insistently, or so it seems.

From New York Times • May 24, 2012

Wrung to exhaustion and deathly pale, he slid from Seabiscuit’s back.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand