Example Sentences

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While the S&P 500 has wrenched up and down but gone pretty much nowhere this year, international, emerging-market, small stocks and value stocks have taken off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character.

From Time Magazine Archive

South Africa, which has administered the former German territory since 1920, once again rejected a Western proposal to end the civil war that has wrenched mineral-rich Namibia for more than a decade.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, at least, has wrenched himself out of Circe's sty.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

It has wrenched your point of view hopelessly aside, don't you think?

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis