wringer

Example Sentences

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There is nothing to boo about that, but the Tartan Army had just been put through the wringer as they watched their side struggle against the world's 100th-best national team.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Jofra Archer sat proudly by the Lord's boundary edge as a crowd that had been put through the wringer ebbed away.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

Donnie Wahlberg shared in the documentary that in the beginning stages of New Kids on The Block the members were put through the wringer.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024

But in the first year of the comic strip alone, Gray puts Annie through the wringer.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2024

This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike?

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli