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Example sentences for: wring

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Press mavens wring their hands when news organizations are caught being brutal or irresponsible.
Anna Murdoch's demand for full disclosure of his business interests was "a ruse to wring a settlement out of the man--known for his personal parsimony--by hitting him where it hurts most."
It allows Those of Us Who Would Never Do Such a Thing to wring our hands and complain while feeling superior--conveniently ignoring actual discussion about messy subjects such as impotence or depression and our society's feelings toward these conditions and those who have them.
M*A*S*H --at least the TV version--offered a pseudo-anti-war stance while enjoying frat boy high jinks: I believe their contract with CBS required that in every third episode the entire camp would see Loretta Swit in the shower and then Alan Alda would wring his hands sensitively.
But it's odd to be celebrating "precious souls" on a tape series designed to teach candidates exactly how to wring money from contributors and seduce skeptical voters . While saying that candidates should be true to themselves, the speakers spend the bulk of their time detailing how campaigns are artifice and how candidates must learn to manipulate voters, contributors, images, and reporters.