How to Use gut-wrenching in a Sentence

gut-wrenching

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• Mixed drinks were a way of masking the gut-wrenching taste.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
• And so that was probably one of the more gut-wrenching cuts.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• For the second straight year, Troy suffered a gut-wrenching loss in Week 3.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• And the gun sellers knew or should have known that these guns would lead to gut-wrenching murder.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 18 July 2023
• The gut-wrenching feeling, the weight on his chest, and the lack of desire for anything became too much to bear.
  — Anna Guaracao, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• After a gut-wrenching breakup, one of the biggest questions you might be left with is, Why?
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024
• Democrats, for their part, are consumed by a gut-wrenching hope that Mr. Trump won’t be the nominee.
  — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• That diary, along with lurid rape and torture videos, proved a gut-wrenching record of Lake and Ng's cruelty.
  — Devan Stuart Lesley, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• Anaya and her husband were in a gut-wrenching position -- the fetus' heart was still beating, but couldn't be saved.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Here are 10 thoughts after the latest gut-wrenching defeat.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2024
• Parry Punch posted this sweet but gut-wrenching photo of Ngannou and his son Kobe.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
• Hart’s brush against Coby White’s afro on a desperate three-point attempt sent White to the line for three free throws, handing the Knicks a gut-wrenching one-point loss.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024
• In the gut-wrenching wild-card playoff loss to the Cincinnati Bengals two seasons ago, backup Tyler Huntley was sacked twice and hit five times.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2024
• Instead, the Beavers suffered a pair of gut-wrenching defeats, succumbing to back-to-back rallies by the Sun Devils.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
• Se7en's gut-wrenching plot twist will leave viewers with goosebumps, but here's where the real chills crawl up the spine: Denzel Washington passed on the part of David Mills.
  — EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
• Coming off a gut-wrenching extra-inning loss in Game 3, the Yankees came out swinging.
  — Homero De La Fuente, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
• Fuller includes many gut-wrenching passages like the one above throughout the book, making his arguments sink in with the reader.
  — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• In it, real-life screams of agony recorded by a detainee who smuggled a phone into the prison pierce through a montage of gut-wrenching images.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Having to sit there and watch Devin and Tori win and watch our final in our fairy-tale season go up in smoke was probably one of the most gut-wrenching moments for me on The Challenge.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• So Taylor-Joy would jump back into another gut-wrenching scene with her jaw tightly clenched.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 7 May 2024
• Beloved characters are not immune to severe, gut-wrenching harm.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• In the last verse, Melle tells a gut-wrenching story about a young man who drops out of school, ends up in jail and dies by suicide after getting repeatedly raped behind bars.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 19 June 2023
• Zuri went into childbirth on Sunday and was in labor for more than 24 hours which were exciting yet gut-wrenching for staff at the zoo, Addelson said.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
• Read full article Rather than risk that, some families are making the gut-wrenching decision to flee.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• Revenge is set in motion at the same time grief must run its course, with battle strategies and covert meetings intercut with gut-wrenching scenes mourning Rhaenyra’s son.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 June 2024
• After a stilted fifth season, which lacked the focus and majesty of its predecessors, Season 6 opens in Paris amid the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the gut-wrenching sounds of a crash.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• The two events are among the array of gut-wrenching scenes that play out each year when family members fail to secure firearms, according to a new federal report.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• After the gut-wrenching loss at Washington, the Bears now have to process being run over by a middle-of-the-road Cardinals team that is 5-4 and was ransacked by the Commanders earlier.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
• Now came the gut-wrenching duty to notify Aileen's sister, Franceasca Seiden.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2024
• Worst-case scenarios are standard fare Week 13 blowout losses for Jets fans, if not unthinkably gut-wrenching playoff collapses in the best of times.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025