is wrenching
- present progressive of wrench (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Across the globe, Florence is wrenching Freddie from writhing on the floor to buck him up for the imminent match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
“Vampire” is wrenching and formally restless, at first masquerading as a piano ballad, only to ramp up into a miniature rock opera complete with a showstopping high note worthy of a tragic heroine.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
The show is wrenching, moving, clever, sly, funny, and as weird as a storm of squid.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2019
This fatalism, which exists in contrast to Jones’s uncommon openness and aesthetic ravening, is wrenching.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
It is always the same fibre which vibrates, the tenderest and most sensitive; but instead of an angel caressing it, it is a demon who is wrenching at it.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
