wrench
Example Sentences
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The Continent today is careening into a second wrenching fiscal crisis, after the 2010 disaster.
The new strain has also thrown a wrench in things.
From Los Angeles Times
Of course it was still a wrenchingly hard experience.
From Los Angeles Times
Chung’s despair over his loss, and the cracked national safety net, is wrenching.
From New York Times
What ensues is a wrenching and claustrophobic portrait of struggle and systemic poverty set in the 1990s and early 2000s.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
