gut-wrenching

Example Sentences

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While the market’s volatility has been gut-wrenching, scaling back your stock exposure could be a big mistake.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Davidson described the emergence of a tic as a "gut-wrenching feeling in the middle of your stomach which slowly rises to your chest".

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s not “Up”-level gut-wrenching, but the scenes establishing the heartbroken boy’s lingering trauma hit pretty hard.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

That hasn’t happened since World War II. It took a famously gut-wrenching recession to wring out the last bout of high inflation from the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

It had been five years since Scruggs had served as a mortarman in Vietnam, but he felt an immediate, gut-wrenching fear for the South Vietnamese soldiers he’d fought alongside.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge