Example Sentences

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The Memphis, Tennessee-based company is wringing out costs by shuttering offices, cutting staff, grounding airplanes, canceling profit-sapping Sunday deliveries in far-flung areas and furloughing workers in its freight division.

From Reuters • Mar. 16, 2023

If Scheffler was the sponge as a kid, he is wringing out every drop of what he learned all around Augusta this week.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2022

The trick is wringing third-act- quality drama out of scenes that are set in first and second acts.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2015

If he is wringing his hands over the more deliberative foreign policy style practiced by the current occupant of the White House, he’s kept it to a close group of confidantes.

From US News • Oct. 8, 2014

My dad is wringing sweat from his mustache.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri