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President Bush went on wringing his hands and doing nothing.
For three years now, the international community has been wringing its hands.
He made her live again before me, and wrung my heart.
The words were wrung out of him almost against his will.
By the time they got back she felt wrung out.
He had taken his hands off the door and was wringing them together.
I have to run the words back through my head, wringing the sense out of them.
And so we're wringing these problems out of our systems.
All that they could do was to wring their hands.
He wrung my hand once more, and left me suddenly.
Should the rest of us wring our hands and leave it to them?
It wrung my heart to see her looking like this.
It was time to wring the truth out of her.
"And how like a woman to wring her hands at the thought of a fight."
It wrung her heart; but she did not question him.
You look so wrung out every morning no other woman would stand a chance.
Paul wrung the hand of the old man and went on board.
I really am wrung out, she thought again, and closed her eyes.
You have no idea what it costs me to wring out my work now.
Not that she wrings more from the situation than is there.
"The things that we now wring our hands about have actually happened for a long time," he said.
I could not wring a drop of information from him.
Women have been wringing their hands over it for decades.
She had wrung out all the water of the storm.
I'll wring him dry and then take care of the matter.