How to Use gut-wrenching in a Sentence

gut-wrenching

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  • Mixed drinks were a way of masking the gut-wrenching taste.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
  • And so that was probably one of the more gut-wrenching cuts.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • For the second straight year, Troy suffered a gut-wrenching loss in Week 3.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • And the gun sellers knew or should have known that these guns would lead to gut-wrenching murder.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 18 July 2023
  • The gut-wrenching feeling, the weight on his chest, and the lack of desire for anything became too much to bear.
    — Anna Guaracao, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Democrats, for their part, are consumed by a gut-wrenching hope that Mr. Trump won’t be the nominee.
    — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • That diary, along with lurid rape and torture videos, proved a gut-wrenching record of Lake and Ng's cruelty.
    — Devan Stuart Lesley, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Anaya and her husband were in a gut-wrenching position -- the fetus' heart was still beating, but couldn't be saved.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the gut-wrenching wild-card playoff loss to the Cincinnati Bengals two seasons ago, backup Tyler Huntley was sacked twice and hit five times.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Instead, the Beavers suffered a pair of gut-wrenching defeats, succumbing to back-to-back rallies by the Sun Devils.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Se7en's gut-wrenching plot twist will leave viewers with goosebumps, but here's where the real chills crawl up the spine: Denzel Washington passed on the part of David Mills.
    — EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Fuller includes many gut-wrenching passages like the one above throughout the book, making his arguments sink in with the reader.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In it, real-life screams of agony recorded by a detainee who smuggled a phone into the prison pierce through a montage of gut-wrenching images.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Having to sit there and watch Devin and Tori win and watch our final in our fairy-tale season go up in smoke was probably one of the most gut-wrenching moments for me on The Challenge.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • So Taylor-Joy would jump back into another gut-wrenching scene with her jaw tightly clenched.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • Beloved characters are not immune to severe, gut-wrenching harm.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • In the last verse, Melle tells a gut-wrenching story about a young man who drops out of school, ends up in jail and dies by suicide after getting repeatedly raped behind bars.
    — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 19 June 2023
  • Zuri went into childbirth on Sunday and was in labor for more than 24 hours which were exciting yet gut-wrenching for staff at the zoo, Addelson said.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • Read full article Rather than risk that, some families are making the gut-wrenching decision to flee.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Revenge is set in motion at the same time grief must run its course, with battle strategies and covert meetings intercut with gut-wrenching scenes mourning Rhaenyra’s son.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 June 2024
  • After a stilted fifth season, which lacked the focus and majesty of its predecessors, Season 6 opens in Paris amid the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the gut-wrenching sounds of a crash.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The two events are among the array of gut-wrenching scenes that play out each year when family members fail to secure firearms, according to a new federal report.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • Worst-case scenarios are standard fare Week 13 blowout losses for Jets fans, if not unthinkably gut-wrenching playoff collapses in the best of times.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The announcement put an end to one chapter in what had been a gut-wrenching mystery for Dau Mabil’s family, friends and community.
    — Trymaine Lee, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Public domain Another gut-wrenching case involved two young girls, one of whom survived.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
  • And while each game of this series has been taken by the home team, history suggests this newly-reborn Knicks-Pacers rivalry always has room for a gut-wrenching left turn.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
  • But its anchors and reporters rallied throughout the evening to provide raw, moving, and at times gut-wrenching coverage of the horrific act of violence against their colleagues.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Each time some buildings have to be demolished, while others at the very least undergo a major costly renovation, only to have to go through the same gut-wrenching process a few decades later.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Its story is very good – an emotional, gut-wrenching exploration of grief and humanity — and Nyong’o is at her absolute best.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 2 July 2024
  • After experiencing a gut-wrenching breakup in her 20s, Chan set off to change the breakup and dating experience for people everywhere.
    — Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024

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