Winkle out

"Winkle out" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.

He watched her blink rapidly and choose a difference sort of release: “I mean, since you’re so good at winkling people out!”

[…] was mopping up the remnants of German resistance and trying to winkle out individual enemy soldiers from their hiding places.

[…] using cloak-and-dagger methods to winkle out unwanted tenants and assemble vacant sites […]

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