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 | Cstephenson@al.com, 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
  • With the gut-wrenching death scene, a comforting dog, the aging flash-forwards and the Heaven-like ending, did the series finale give anyone else Supernatural series finale vibes?
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The week before the 2024 election, a gut-wrenching advertisement created by a progressive campaign fund went viral.
    Christen Hammock Jones / Made By History, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024

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