How to Use hand-wringing in a Sentence

hand-wringing

noun
  • So much for all that hand-wringing.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation.
    — Mitch Zimmer, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Here is why hand-wringing should remain tempered.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2025
  • All of this mercenary behavior led to a lot of hand-wringing over the years.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2025
  • But this hand-wringing has led to little tangible reform.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • And the burnout risk is real, not generational hand-wringing.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Would all the hand-wringing about the price be moot after experiencing one?
    — Sara Lacey, The Drive, 25 June 2026
  • And despite the offseason hand-wringing, baseball’s in a better spot than it’s been in decades.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • And those same New York Mets have shown how absurd the hand-wringing has become.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • There’s obviously a lot of hand-wringing around climbing losing its soul.
    — Outside, 23 Feb. 2026
  • No more hand-wringing and excuses by politicians who love to talk while people are terrorized.
    — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Leavy catalogs this wistfulness not in the spirit of hand-wringing, but more as an earnest problem solver.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The lack of hand-wringing from outside legacy media may indicate a bigger shift.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
  • The economic potential is real, but the hand-wringing is overblown.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Just this spring, from hand-wringing about the state of the league to, today, a finals that has everyone excited to tune in.
    — Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Publicly, without hand-wringing.
    — Kyle P. Edmonds, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This has caused the usual hand-wringing about competitive imbalance and the inherent plight of small-market teams.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
  • For all the hand-wringing every year about how many prospects decide to attend in person, the NFL has made its choice pretty clear.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The quality weather alleviated the hand-wringing about the rain during the buildup to kickoff.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Those who haven’t purchased trip insurance, can’t avoid the flight or have to travel out of necessity are going to be doing a lot of hand-wringing before the airport.
    — Beth Collums, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Silver’s success has also sparked a hand-wringing on social media where users are posting sardonic memes about Bitcoin’s stumbles.
    — Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This situation and current leadership style is leading to much hand-wringing these days in the corporate suites of the nation’s retailers and brands, and who can blame them?
    — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • On Hacks, the end of Deborah’s and Ava’s late night dreams made for dramatic reckoning, but our heroes eschewed hand-wringing.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Back when the film was released and first became a hit, there was no small part of hand-wringing around Hollywood that Coogler’s deal would set a bad precedent for the studios on a long-term basis.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Signs of greater regulatory scrutiny in the country's semiconductor sector also added to the hand-wringing.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • Signs of greater regulatory scrutiny in the country's semiconductor sector also added to the hand-wringing.
    — ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • Despite industry-wide hand-wringing over the rise of streaming, watching a movie at home and seeing a movie in the theater are not mutually exclusive experiences.
    — Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps because of their rarity, aviation incidents (or near accidents) tend to generate headlines and hand-wringing.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • All the recent obituaries for videos are premature, just as all the hand-wringing over the decline of MTV seems extremely postmature.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Depending on the viewer, the video elicited either admiration, outrage or existential hand-wringing.
    — Holly Willis, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026

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