wring

Example Sentences

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He has also mocked allies uneasy about the widening conflict, referring to those who "wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force."

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

That hasn’t happened since World War II. It took a famously gut-wrenching recession to wring out the last bout of high inflation from the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

They’re on the sidelines trying to wring their hands and say, “What can be done about this?”

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

But no matter how often they repeated the words, with many different inflections, they were unable to wring any more meaning from them.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling