gut-wrenching
Example Sentences
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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
The destruction in Harcourt was "gut-wrenching", the local fire captain Andrew Wilson said.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026
Nikola Jokic suffered a "gut-wrenching" knee injury as the Denver Nuggets crashed to a 147-123 defeat to the Miami Heat on Monday.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
She woke only to cough, a miserable gut-wrenching cough, as if she was trying to turn herself inside out.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
