wrench
Example Sentences
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It was enough of a trend that Glaser joked about an area of the audience represented by “Hamnet” and other wrenching films, which she dubbed “traumatized woman alley.”
These days he owns his own tools, like specialized torque wrenches—required by Ford—that cost up to $800 apiece.
The workers’ uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand.
From Los Angeles Times
But over the next half-century, her emotionally wrenching performances would turn her into an Oscar winner, while her idiosyncratic personal style made her a touchstone to generations of American women.
While the central meaning of all this has yet to be revealed, Seehorn’s performance of Carol’s obstinate loneliness is wrenchingly genuine to anyone who has ever felt alone in a sea of smiling strangers.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
