How to Use gut-wrenching in a Sentence

gut-wrenching

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• The past week has been gut-wrenching for our town, like all the worst parts of the Bible at once.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The irony of the trade is that Cortes and Williams surrendered the two most gut-wrenching home runs of the 2024 postseason.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Pair it with: The ’90s Berserk for gut-wrenching dark fantasy.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 4 June 2025
• After a gut-wrenching breakup, one of the biggest questions you might be left with is, Why?
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024
• The joy in the kids’ eyes will be a stark contrast to the gut-wrenching stares of less-privileged children on the nightly news.
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
• All of them have ended with gut-wrenching shots in the final eight seconds.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2025
• 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
• This gut-wrenching loss came two nights after the Cougars fashioned a wild comeback of their own, from 14 down against Duke.
  — Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
• Those that know her say those losses, combined with the turmoil at 23andMe, must be gut-wrenching.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 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
• Whatever the reason, the casting adds so much more weight to Night of the Living Dead's gut-wrenching ending.
  — James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
• 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
• All the crazy ups and the gut-wrenching downs that are high school, but mostly just this totally overwhelming feeling of awe for her and joy for me.
  — Kayla Grant, People.com, 10 June 2025
• 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
• Any star will tell you the most gut-wrenching feeling is walking out of a playoff series, in a loss, while believing there was still more to give.
  — Shane Young, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
• Then, in the final few scenes, a gut-wrenching piece of news is delivered involving Jaja and ICE agents.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• 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
• Mom’s gut-wrenching message to parents after teenage son dies in twin brother’s arms.
  — FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The gut-wrenching performance brought newfound success to the track, which earned a Grammy nomination at the time.
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 19 July 2025