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Example sentences for: wrenching

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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.
"For many years after the war, the government and people of Japan made no real effort to understand the wrenching experience of war and the anguish of those in other countries," it said.
It's often wrenching anyway.
For 30 years now, audiences hoped he'd serve up wrenching, emotional music--his version of "Mother" from "Plastic Ono Band"--and it just doesn't seem to be in his nature.
Highlights: The magazine excerpts the wrenching diary of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who managed to survive World War II in Dresden, Germany.