Wringing in example sentence
Then he approached her, and in a soft voice said—"It isn't pleasant, I know; but, after all, no bones are broken, and, since that is the only way that is left for you paying back my money—""But where am I to get any?" said Emma, wringing her hands.
More example sentences with word wringing
We knew so little in those days, as little as now, I suppose about healing those hurts: even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace, while father and son, like thugs, like thieves, like Romans, simmered and hissed and hated, inflicting sorrows that endured, the worst anyway, through the kiss and embrace, bleeding from brother to brother, into the generations. 
