wrench
verb (used with object)
to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
will wrench
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future tenseof wrench.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“I contemplate with great satisfaction the pains that will wrench his little pigeon heart when he hears that all my debts are paid,” Wallace wrote of one of them, his brother-in-law.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013
Lane will wrench open his eyelids and watch the waning minutes of "Monday Night Football" if, and only if, his beloved Redskins are playing.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2012
The need to balance population growth against its social cost will wrench the thinking of bankers, storekeepers and politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No, little one, I am not," he answered in the same tongue, "but I am afraid that with those high heels you will wrench your ankle."
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Edwin Partridge Lehman
In that case Mooween, if he can get near enough without risking a fall from too delicate branches, will wrench off the limb on which Unk Wunk is sleeping and throw it to the ground.
From Wood Folk at School by William Joseph Long
