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Example sentences for "wringer"

Lexicographically close words:
wriggles; wriggling; wriggly; wrighting; wring; wringing; wrings; wrinkle; wrinkled; wrinkles
  1. It had a swinging wringer and the wringer was revolving at so rapid a rate it became plain that any woman who stepped in the way of that particular type of wringer was doomed to a severe blow if not a fall.

  2. Would she buy one in order to use the swinging wringer as an obvious menace to herself and to her household?

  3. And my advice to you, young lady, is this; next time you want to see how a wringer works, ask before you investigate.

  4. It had been designed to put colonists through the wringer and deposit them at its own farm to be day-laborers forever with due regard to human law.

  5. They were unanimously aware of the wringer they were being put through.

  6. Take it to the bed in the wringer and do not open until ready to place on the skin, as it will lose its heat very quickly.

  7. The stupes should be wrung as dry as possible and as they must be very hot to do any good, a fomentation wringer is a great protection for the hands.

  8. Boiling water should then be added, or the water, stupe, and wringer may be boiled together in the basin.

  9. After the stupe is ready, the wringer with the stupe upon it should be removed from the water by grasping the dry ends of the wringer.

  10. The wringer should be placed in the basin with the stupe arranged upon it.

  11. Wringing is made easier if the wringer has wide hems into which sticks such as pieces of broom handles are inserted.

  12. If a piece of heavy cloth is hung across the tub where the wringer fastens to it, you will find that it will fasten and hold as securely as to the old-fashioned wooden tub.

  13. It bids fair to last her as long again, and it is certain that just now the wringer does as good work as any new one.

  14. A neighbor rejuvenated a worn-out wringer the other day by covering the rolls with white felt.

  15. The popularity of the galvanized tub due to its weight and durability, is the cause of a great many people discarding the wringer on account of their inability to fasten it to the tub securely.

  16. There is a large tub with a wringer attached to it and a simple mechanism by which a small motor can either be connected with the tub or the wringer as required.

  17. When the clothes are thoroughly washed, the motor is attached to the wringer and they are passed through it; they are completely dried by a specially constructed electric fan.

  18. Illustration] Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank.

  19. There she had placed her little tub and wringer and she took the dolls one at a time, and scrubbed them with a scrubbing brush and soused them up and down and this way and that in the soap suds until they were clean.

  20. Discarded wringer rollers can be used for B and E.

  21. As it is shown, the wringer is fastened on top of the back and may remain there all the time, it being out of the way, always in its proper place, and held very firmly.

  22. The liquids are removed from the feathers by a centrifugal machine or a wringer (the latter is evidently meant for ordinary feathers, other than ostrich feathers).

  23. Then the feathers are taken up, and the adhering liquid squeezed out by hand or by rolling them through a clothes wringer with rubber roller.

  24. The wringer was turned to the tune of a Te Deum, the clothes were rubbed to the rhythm of a Benedictus, and the floor mopped to the melody of a Magnificat.

  25. What care should a roller wringer receive?

  26. This adjustment of the wringer helps to do better work and save wear and tear on clothing and wringer.

  27. The centrifugal washer and wringer combined is built so that the basket can be lowered into a tub of water.

  28. The wringer is attached to a device for making the inside tub turn rapidly.

  29. Thus, the clothes are wrung as dry as in a wringer of the roller type.

  30. Never leave a wringer with the pressure on the rollers when not in use.

  31. After this is accomplished, the cylinder is raised, and, when rotated, serves as a wringer of the centrifugal type.

  32. The kind of wringer in most general use is the one made of two rollers rotating in opposite directions, the clothes being drawn in between the two by friction, and the water pressed out.

  33. Here stood a washing machine run by electric motor and a wringer run by the same motor (Fig.

  34. I said, stopping the wringer and looking into her eyes.

  35. A child's dress caught on the wringer and tore.

  36. Say, the fog here is so thick you have to feel around like a blind goddess, and when you show up through the fog you look about eighteen feet high, and you are so wet you want to be run through a clothes wringer every little while.

  37. By and by the giantess brought an immense clothes-wringer from a shelf, and having fastened it to the side of the big wash tub began to wring out the clothes.

  38. Prince Fiddlecumdoo had never seen a clothes-wringer before, and so pleased was he with the novelty of it that he leaned far out of the pocket to watch it work.

  39. I accidently ran him through the clothes-wringer this afternoon, and the poor boy is as thin as a pie crust.

  40. Either run the fabric smoothly through a wringer or squeeze the water out, so that the fibres may not become twisted.

  41. The rubber rollers of the wringer may be kept clean and white by rubbing them with a clean cloth and a few drops of kerosene (coal oil).


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wringer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.