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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The announcement put an end to one chapter in what had been a gut-wrenching mystery for Dau Mabil’s family, friends and community.
  — Trymaine Lee, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2024
• And while each game of this series has been taken by the home team, history suggests this newly-reborn Knicks-Pacers rivalry always has room for a gut-wrenching left turn.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
• But its anchors and reporters rallied throughout the evening to provide raw, moving, and at times gut-wrenching coverage of the horrific act of violence against their colleagues.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• Each time some buildings have to be demolished, while others at the very least undergo a major costly renovation, only to have to go through the same gut-wrenching process a few decades later.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
• Returning to the courtroom after sitting through the gut-wrenching school shooting video, jurors were shown a video of James and Jennifer Crumbley handcuffed in the back of a patrol car, venting about what was happening.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• Biden holds ‘gut-wrenching’ call with families of missing Americans; Israel...
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Her ethereal sound reflects gut-wrenching stories of heartbreak.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• For example, if someone has suffered from an illness or gut-wrenching heartbreak, their life line may develop some sort of mark to indicate that, Goldberg explains.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
• As the big-school conference state boys basketball tournaments picked up Thursday night, there were thrilling finishes, clutch performances and gut-wrenching outcomes.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• Few people could have predicted this outcome for Rau, whose 27-year career has been defined by both gut-wrenching losses and his ability to defy expectations.
  — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024