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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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
My eyes moved over the sharp geometry of black giving way to maroon, and it was the color of my mother’s exhaustion when she died, of everything life had wrung out of her.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2017
This period of American history held a special appeal for Clara’s father, Mr. Finisterre, a bony-faced Portuguese immigrant to southwestern Florida who had wrung his modest fortune out of the sea-damp wallets of tourists.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
Celaena looked at her hands and realized she had wrung them so badly that her fingers were red.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
