Example sentences for: wrenching

How can you use “wrenching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is “a way of wrenching back some wordpower,” and in a way not “a-mazing” (a typical Daly twirl of language to make the reader re-examine words) to our “fore-sisters who/were the Great Hags,” terms used in unconventional ways.

  • The wrenching loss of manufacturing jobs (the source of low-skill jobs at decent wages) and the flight of the white middle class to the suburbs began before the riots.

  • The miracle of the film, which is based on a memoir by the real "Brasco," Joseph D. Pistone (in collaboration with Richard Woodley), is that with so many layers of irony, it's so emotionally pure--and so wrenching.

  • Highlights: The magazine excerpts the wrenching diary of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who managed to survive World War II in Dresden, Germany.

  • The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."


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