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.
  — 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
• The current round of liberal hand-wringing about how conservatives have become far better at driving the political conversation stems in large part from Kirk.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025