Wring meaning

Verb: wring

Pronunciation: (ring)

Wring meaning:

• Squeeze and twist to force liquid from or compress in order to extract liquid

Wring meaning: A twisting squeeze

Quotations : Herbert Gold – Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

S.J.Perelman – The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Gerard Manley Hopkins – Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

C.S. Lewis – To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Winston Churchill – When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, “In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

Sample sentences:

1. He wrung the bird’s neck.
2. Washing machines first rinse and then wring out the clothes twice or thrice.
3. Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
4. My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices.
5. If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
6. It’s hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves.
7. My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
8. If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
9. O woman! In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou.
10. If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
11. Obviously, change is difficult. Anytime you take something away someone is accustomed to, there’s going to be some hand wringing. But Sun did an excellent job of restructuring, so there could be some win-wins.
12. We see all of this hand-wringing, people saying that it’s the end of theaters. And, to be honest, we’re laughing a little. Business is actually pretty good.
13. The way some of these smaller stocks that have suddenly come to life and exploded might suggest that there’s a bit of speculation left to be wrung out of the market.
14. Private equity firms know you can’t wring every last cent out of a business if you want a successful exit – you have to leave some opportunities on the table, some potential to grow.
15. How much cost is added to the vehicle depends on the car company itself. The pricing options are fairly wide. It depends on what kind of value they are wringing out of this.