(n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
(n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of the records at Milwaukee Children's Hospital between the years 1973 and 1983 revealed that of the 99 wringer injuries seen, 80 of 99 patients were radiographed and only five fractures were diagnosed.
(2) A clinical survey of 92 upper extremity wringer injuries over the past four years at the Bexar County Hospital are presented.
(3) Of these fractures only two were attributable to the wringer device and these two required therapy.
(4) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(5) I thought I went through the wringer last week against Derby.
(6) Ninety-two upper extremity compression injuries secondary to washing machine wringers were reviewed.
(7) While the number of wringer washing machine injuries is declining due to the increasing use of automatic washing machines, these injuries still occur.
(8) Paxman said Entwistle was "put through the wringer" during the David Kelly affair after the programme's science editor Susan Watts told him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(9) "This is a little bit about Thai navy payback where Phuketwan has been a thorn in the side of the navy for many years in the handling of the Rohingya and the navy is determined to put them through the wringer," Robertson said.
(10) It opened in 1972, a few months before a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at Washington’s Watergate hotel and office complex led to Woodward and Bernstein’s revelation of crime and cover-up at the highest level of government (“Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published,” US attorney general John Mitchell fumed).
(11) Wednesday January 16 2013 Who says Guardian readers are a bunch of sandal-wearing hand-wringers knitting their own organic hemp underwear and obsessing about the origins of their lentil homebrew?
(12) He also had a remarkable owner behind him in the Post’s proprietor, Katharine Graham – famously warned early on in the saga by the White House that she would “get her tit caught in a big fat wringer”.
(13) In this report we describe our experience with the gastroschisis wringer clamp (GWC).
(14) Jeremy Paxman has recalled how his former boss was "put through the wringer" after Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, revealed to him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(15) This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of Nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour.
(16) Like many who came to power under the Blair-Brown aegis, she has learned to say nothing that hasn't already gone through the "will this win votes" wringer.
(17) The GWC is an autoclavable, 140-g, aluminum alloy device reminiscent of an old wringer washing machine.
(18) He points to the first appearance of the witch Tiffany Aching, a central character in his young adult titles – the precocious nine-year-old puts various fairy stories through the wringer of her enquiring mind.
(19) Down the years the director has been accused of pushing his actors – and particularly his female actors – too hard; of feeding them through the wringer and all but sniggering at their discomfort.
(20) If all you knew of Tracey Thorn was her music, you might think she had spent the last 30 years being squeezed through the emotional wringer.
Wrung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wring
() imp. & p. p. of Wring.
Example Sentences:
(1) But dealer and gallery owner Paul Jones, who has represented street artists for 30 years, suspects the last juices have been wrung from an art movement that started in America, before coming to Britain in 2000, where it was re-invented as a print buyers' market.
(2) For years the city council has wrung its hands in a state of bewildered helplessness as public awareness of this gateway to hell in their midst has grown.
(3) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
(4) Normally, he never sees them once they're released - 'I'll do the premiere and that's the last time that I'll ever look at it because I've wrung it dry by then.'
(5) He has wrung promises from Westminster of more devolved powers.
(6) He has wrung a near apology for past crimes out of Dostum, who said in a message on Facebook: "We apologise to all who have suffered on both sides of the wars."
(7) He went on: "It is clear from the McNulty report that there are huge efficiency gains to be wrung out of Network Rail.
(8) "An enterprise strategy means investing in renewable energy," he said, a far warmer phrase than in previous speeches and presumably wrung out of him by the Lib Dems.
(9) Greece bailout agreement: key points Read more Tsipras wrung two concessions: the fund would be run from Athens, not Luxembourg, and a tranche of the cash would be earmarked for investments in Greece.
(10) This is also why the details of any concessions wrung from the Tories over the last couple of days on financial reform will matter so much.
(11) But as the dust has settled, there have been growing doubts about whether the deal Italy and Spain thought they had wrung from Berlin was as good as it first appeared.
(12) The 10-month partial freeze, wrung out of Netanyahu after months of pressure and negotiation, is due to end in late September.
(13) Five years later Ghani wrung a half-hearted apology out of his vice-president but was otherwise unapologetic, arguing that the alliance was the price of transformation for a country so often betrayed by its rulers.
(14) So those of us who were shocked by the hardline, "Chinese way" of raising children revealed by Amy Chua in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother aren't surprised by its follow-up – the news that a pair of schoolgirls in Beijing, driven to despair by their mothers' desperate drive to force them on to success, have fought back with the online publication of a guide to how savvy but wrung-out kids can retaliate when they're being driven to the edge of the cliff of over-ambition.
(15) Their intervention came after David Cameron , Nick Clegg and Miliband made a joint pledge on Scotland on the front page of the Daily Record, supplementing a previous pledge wrung out of the leaders by Gordon Brown, which gave a fast-track timetable for devolution starting 19 September.
(16) He wrung an 18-month deal from Levy which, it has to be said, felt like a surprise.
(17) At the end of it all, both teams looked wrung out and exhausted.
(18) The writer pointed out that the attack took place behind closed doors, adding: "If we'd wanted a sensational rape we could have stayed down in the kitchen with the camera during the whole thing and wrung it out.
(19) Owen Paterson took the helm, and by the end of November 2012 had wrung some money out of the Treasury to plug a little of the funding gap.