Vocabulary Word
Word: wring
Definition: twist (to extract liquid); extract by twisting; wrench painfully (necks or hands)
Definition: twist (to extract liquid); extract by twisting; wrench painfully (necks or hands)
Sentences Containing 'wring'
Her father's only answer was to draw his hands through his white hair, and wring them with a shriek of anguish.
But the count, disregarding his cry, continued to wring the bandit's wrist, until, his arm being dislocated, he fell first on his knees, then flat on the floor.
All day long they do nothing but calculate, contrive, consult how to wring their profit out of food-stuffs, farm-plots and the like.
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