I wrung out my clothes after I washed them in the river. From LearnThat.org.
Out of nothing he created a large staff of clerks, wrung from the Dutch. From Wordnik.com. [History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War] Reference
Silent Hill is the best possible movie that can be wrung from a video game. From Wordnik.com. [2006 April « the balcony fool] Reference
The very money they dribble out in their child's schemes has been wrung from the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Drink, Temperance, and Thrift] Reference
To her mind it was quite natural that such a cry of pain should be wrung from the weak heart. From Wordnik.com. [That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story] Reference
Luck's own darling, who had come down to spend the clean-up of the seventh fortune wrung from the frozen Arctic gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XI] Reference
It can readily be understood that Spain was utterly discontented with the terms wrung from her by the Quadruple Alliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference
A sound, such as might be wrung from a suffering animal, came from the girl, but at the same moment the door opened and a woman entered. From Wordnik.com. [Further Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
A Federal victory; it is not wrung from the despair of a discomfited host. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall of American Slavery] Reference
Ari grated, each word wrung from him, each phrase drenched in pain and anguish. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
Every word wrung from Lakely was another stimulus to pride, another subtle tribute to the curious force of personality. From Wordnik.com. [The Masquerader] Reference
'wrung' -- that which has been forcibly diverted from a right line. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
I started to go, and Galvin wrung my hand. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune] Reference
Some items had to be starched and wrung out yet again. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
He fell silent, his mouth wrung and twisted with pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He turned off the tap and wrung drops of water from his shirt. From Wordnik.com. [How My Parents Fell In Love] Reference
"We wrung our hands about this every night," says her dad, Joel. From Wordnik.com. [(Rethinking) Gender] Reference
It's one of those raw, wrung out Yonge Street Saturday mornings. From Wordnik.com. [Something Better Than This] Reference
Presently she raised her head and spoke in harsh, wrung accents. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Acupuncture, Catarina wrung her hands, they stuck me with quills, like a porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [Reproductive Disneyland] Reference
It tasted like someone had soaked a gym sock in grain alcohol and wrung it into my glass. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Blues] Reference
The trick seems to be to win at the grass roots what can't be wrung from the Supreme Court. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
After considerable coaxing, Eva finally wrung from Marian a promise to visit her that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
The lines I would once have wrung from Strom Thurmond's age or Tom Cruise's divorce didn't fly. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Comedy As We Know It?] Reference
Brooklyn Museum contemporary art curator Eugenie Tsai wrung her hands and glared at Chow in disbelief. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial] Reference
He took off his shirt, washed it round in the lake, wrung it out, and spread it before him on the grass to dry. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
The book dunked me in pristine water, battered and wrung me and hung me out to dry in sunshine; rejuvenated me. From Wordnik.com. ['Book Of Disquiet' Reveals A Reclusive Author's Soul] Reference
"The Army Corps of Engineers has delayed and studied and analyzed and wrung its hands for years," complains Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Devils Lake Gets Its Due] Reference
Mama said chicken, but Nellie shot him, wrung his neck and picked him clean the funniest chicken I've ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Songs about Feet, Math, Baseball: New Kids' Music] Reference
He's wrung out because he needs to get back into shape, because he, and his body, needs to adjust to healthy activity. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Power of the Poontang] Reference
When Martín's father came home and saw the smashed model, he wrung from mother what had occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Tarzan] Reference
European Community peacekeepers, meeting in The Hague, wrung another "cease-fire" from representatives of the Yugoslav republics. From Wordnik.com. ['Dubrovnik Has Become A Hell'] Reference
In Cambodia, blue-helmeted soldiers stepped in after diplomats wrung a comprehensive peace settlement from the country's combatants. From Wordnik.com. [The Pitfalls Of Peacekeeping] Reference
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" wrung up bad, stretching out Robbie Robertson's voice like some runaway child put to the rack. From Wordnik.com. [Confederates] Reference
I long to shout as with her hands great secrets of grief and a grieving not death's but a dying with beauty's right speed are wrung. From Wordnik.com. [Passing from the Light I Glimpse] Reference
The availability of adjustment in the modern world, when the excesses have been wrung out after the credit crisis, is simply amazing. From Wordnik.com. [Frank A. Weil: What Columbus Must Have Worried About] Reference
A good chunk of the profit recently posted by major multinationals has been wrung from cost cutting rather than from new ideas and sales. From Wordnik.com. [Boom and Gloom] Reference
"Mother is dead, sir," I answered, crying; for the very mention of her name wrung my young heart with grief. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler] Reference
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