wring
Example Sentences
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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
This latest creation is a dud, a banal sitcom figure surrounded by wacky characters who can’t wring any laughs out of Mr. Brooks’s musty script.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
