How to Use wring in a Sentence

wring

verb

• I wrung the towel and hung it up to dry.
• I wrung my hair and wrapped it in a towel.
• Slide the mop head up and twist to wring out the water.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2018
• There’s been much hand wringing about the state of the It bag.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
• Rinse the cloth with water, wring it out and wipe away the residue.
  — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 24 Mar. 2021
• The kids had to take breaks to wring out their jackets and pants.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• But first, Klaren would wring some of it out for his next hay crop.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Just sit on the thing, press the electric start button and wring the right hand grip.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Torts’s turn to wring the marrow out of a team of misfit toys.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• The hills scoop the wet air upwards, wringing out its rain.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• Plunge the dill into the ice bath to stop the cooking, then remove and wring dry.
  — Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2022
• Cottam stages the crowd scenes well and manages to wring a few hearty laughs.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• Dip and then wring out a rag and gently dab or wipe the sticky areas.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Avoid wringing the bag, which can weaken and damage the fibers.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
• Most folk, out-take Nack, reckoned the qualm was a tale the priests wrought up to wring out our silver.
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• The past year wrung us out, and now Arizona was hanging us out to dry with a bad start.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• The players used this delay to wring a new set of concessions out of the league.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• This will wick away moisture – and there will be more moisture to wring out.
  — Bonnie S. Benwick, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Mice have been a problem in the past, but Dutch farmers no longer wring their hands and weep for their fields.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 July 2019
• Be sure to rinse and wring out the cleaning cloth or mop frequently.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• To wring the mop, pull it taut and twist it against the ratcheting mechanism.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
• But y’know, there’s more trauma to wring out of his Black dad leaving his white mom.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
• Many scenes try to wring laughs out of his vanity, but the dad-bod jokes all go over like dad jokes.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 July 2021
• The agency was supposed to wring the maximum amount of timber from the land.
  — Kiliii Yüyan, History & Culture, 17 Dec. 2020
• Then rinse the sponges in cool, soapy water and wring them out completely.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
• Patting the tofu dry, rather than fully wringing the block, keeps the inside of the nuggets moist.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 23 Sep. 2023
• One of the biggest problems with business meetings is that all the risk has been wrung out of them.
  — Priya Parker, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• We had been wrung out by the Basin, and Matt looked like a skeleton held together with skin.
  — Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
• Warmer air is also able to hold more moisture, soaking it up like a sponge to wring out in the form of torrential rain.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• Yet Democrats have been the party most publicly wringing their hands about the threat Stein and others pose, loathe to relive their past traumas.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024