wrung

Example Sentences

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So forget the grandchildren, we are the people over whom so many hands have been wrung over the last 40 years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

All of these jornaleros knew each other, maybe not by their real names, but by nicknames, usually wrung from the place they had lived.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

If Warshow wrung a sizable reputation out of a small body of work, he also stuffed his very short life with experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 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

Besides, the black elite had always wrung concessions from the white power structure—slowly but surely—through back-channel meetings, arguing their case in a dignified, rational, and, above all, civil manner.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson