Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of wring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
wring .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wring .
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Examples
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The very money they dribble out in their child's schemes has been wrung from the poor.
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Luck's own darling, who had come down to spend the clean-up of the seventh fortune wrung from the frozen Arctic gravel.
Chapter XI 2010
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Your brothers, to - day, are ignorant barbarians compared with me and the knowledge I have wrung from the books in the hours they were sleeping.
Chapter 30 2010
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Eventually, communities wrung from the cable companies the right to have free access channels of three sorts -- Public Access, Educational, and Government, hence 'PEG' -- in exchange for running all that wire along the public right-of-way.
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The laughs are few and far between and I canât say thereâs much dramatic tension to be wrung from a race featuring sausage dogs (even when the owners of a second place finisher lodge a formal protest following a particularly suspicious start).
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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Whatever longevity can be wrung from a movie by releasing it to smaller, more forgiving screens is cut short by the living-room behemoths that are being pushed on us today.
November 2006 2006
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Your opening and closing lines are 100% dead-on about it being the best possible movie that can be wrung from a video game yet being unable to overcome the fact that it was written for the Playstation.
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Silent Hill is the best possible movie that can be wrung from a video game.
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Whatever longevity can be wrung from a movie by releasing it to smaller, more forgiving screens is cut short by the living-room behemoths that are being pushed on us today.
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Whatever longevity can be wrung from a movie by releasing it to smaller, more forgiving screens is cut short by the living-room behemoths that are being pushed on us today.
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