gut-wrenching
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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What unfolded next, they said, was gut wrenching.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2025
Winters-Scott’s family knows as well as anyone how rewarding - and gut wrenching - the recruiting process can be.
From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2023
“As gut wrenching a defeat as I can remember in my career,” said Riley afterward in a press conference room filled with the loud music coming from the celebratory Utah locker room.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2023
But when it comes to the possibility of the Bears leaving their iconic lakefront home for the Chicago suburbs, Alexa is onboard — gut wrenching as it might be.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2021
"Da 5 Bloods" opens with archival footage of Muhammad Ali explaining his reasons for being a conscientious objector alongside wartime frames seen as still and moving, all of it gut wrenching.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2020
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