Example Sentences

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"She was wringing her hands. She was scared. I trusted them. And they've seriously let us down, and they've let her down. That's cruelty."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

To be clear, I thought they were funny, so what I was wringing my hands over was that I was pretty sure that this made me a bad person.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2021

“I felt really ineffective as a public health person. I felt like I was wringing my hands and asking the woulda, shoulda, coulda questions, and that’s an uncomfortable place to be.”

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

When I first met Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now familiar as the elder of the two alleged Boston Marathon bombers, he gripped my hand like he was wringing out a rag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2013

By that time Matt was wringing and twisting like a hen on a hot brick.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston