Meanings of winkle out in English

I will winkle out the secrets of this maze in no time!

I had to winkle out this information from many different sources.

Like we needed a survey to winkle out such groundbreaking news.

Each time, we tried to get the winkle out whole without breaking off the very thin end.

The headline made me uncomfortable, and it took a bit of consideration to winkle out exactly why that is.

Instead of trying to winkle out their quarry with gunfire, the assault team had lobbed a bunker-buster up the elevator shaft.

He liked to hire sharp kids like her, get to know them, try to winkle out their motives and emotions through observation.

We worked into the stubborn parts of our respective bones and, indeed, toothpicks were provided, to winkle out hardened little deposits of gunk.

I quickly learned it was better to follow along, quiet and confused, rather than try to winkle out every detail and risk her irritation.

Nassim tried to winkle out what Else Tage might be doing along with the real prospects for the Grail Empress's greatest of all crusades.

One had to read between the lines, and sometimes even between the words, to winkle out a message that was "Thatcher-sceptic" in content.

Unconscious bias training can help too, to winkle out our unthinking preferences in terms of the kinds of people we like to recruit and promote.

Even, whisper it, of some more systemic vulnerability being winkled out.

After many fruitless enquiries, I winkled out the truth using Freedom of Information laws.

A less redacted version has been winkled out this week.

It's winkling out these untold stories that fascinates Rees.