wrung out
Example Sentences
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The trumpeters valiantly persevere but, by the end of the day, everyone's wrung out.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The speculative leverage has been wrung out of this market for months.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
Others actively seek out practices where money buys the kind of timely, personalized, and coordinated care that has largely been wrung out of the U.S. healthcare system.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2025
In reality, he spoke to reporters listlessly and with uncharacteristic brevity, while looking thoroughly wrung out.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
Exhausted, their horses wrung out from the long night, the soldiers are starting to feel as if they have been sent to follow a false lead.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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