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

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

Repetition had wrung from Clement’s speech any controversy it might have once contained.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson