wrung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wring.
unwrung
-
a word derived from
wrung.
Example Sentences
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The suggestion leaves my British withers entirely unwrung, for I approve of bold innovation in language, trusting to the impermanence of the unfit to counteract the effects of licentiousness.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
Our blithesome contemporary, F. P. A., is not disturbed by the steel strike, as he uses a gold pen; and for a like reason our withers are unwrung.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
All are blistered and sore: his withers are unwrung.
From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame
Benson's social satires always gives me somewhat the sensations of the reporter at the special sermon—a relieved consciousness that, being present on business, my own withers may be supposed professionally unwrung.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various
Of all the companies doing a general business in the East, the Guardian had come through least scathed, its withers unwrung.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
