wrenched

Example Sentences

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While the S&P 500 has wrenched up and down but gone pretty much nowhere this year, international, emerging-market, small stocks and value stocks have taken off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Now we know with painful clarity what it is to be wrenched from our homes.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025

He dove into the waves and wrenched us back aboard somehow.

From Salon • May 11, 2024

But their family was wrenched apart before her fifth birthday in the wake of Kenya's independence, putting her mother's life at risk "when Kenya asked all the white people to leave".

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

Their great hinges and iron bars were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien