wrenching

With a mold to shape their composite, the scientists made a working wrench.

Sometimes producers introduce special “powers” that can throw a wrench into things.

The latter point throws a big wrench into proponents of a “herd immunity” approach wherein you simply let enough people get infected and become immune.

Then, in his second year on the job, Culp got thrown a monkey wrench in the form of the coronavirus.

Though the pandemic has thrown a wrench in the growth of China’s middle class, it is nonetheless growing, meaning millions more people per year have the means to acquire possessions like cars.

There was a wrenching crash of metal, a shrill scream of skidding tires, climaxed by a thunderous roar.

Wrenching warehouses to fragments the tornado passed to the river front, leaving a broad swath of wreckage and dead bodies.

Wrenching the lower or root part of the tooth loose from its socket in the jaw is what hurts so when a tooth is pulled.

A slip and a violent, wrenching effort at recovery frightened him.

Wrenching himself free from her hands, Drew dropped down on the floor and began to hunt around for the key.