wring
verb (used with object)
to twist forcibly.
had wrung
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past perfectof wring.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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We were all cheering for Patten, who had wrung out her guts onstage, and we were cheering for Morissette, who created a song we have been humming for much of our lives.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
A man with a full-on beard lived his childhood daydream, and golf had wrung from him a happiness only a wretch could begrudge.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2019
At a 2013 tribute dinner for Prof. Bator, Dr. Solow recalled the “fierce intensity” of his former student: “When he grabbed something he didn’t let it go until he had wrung it dry.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2018
Yancey wrestled with a tiny fragment of a sample until he had wrung all the soul from it.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016
It was as though the cholera had wrung everything out of the villagers’ bodies and found nothing left to attack except their spirits.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
