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

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

Wales captain Dewi Lake labelled his team's late Six Nations defeat by Scotland as "gut-wrenching".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 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

The first thing I remember about being a person living in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1940s is the gut-wrenching fear in my heart and in my tummy that I was in danger.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals