Example Sentences
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Ireland, winners against Scotland earlier in the day, watched on in Dublin, seeing the title wrenched out of their grasp in the final act of an enthralling edition of the sport's oldest international championship.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
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
Now we know with painful clarity what it is to be wrenched from our homes.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2025
He dove into the waves and wrenched us back aboard somehow.
From Salon ● May 11, 2024
May brought blizzards so severe that Wild was afraid their hut would be smashed by the sheets of ice that the wind wrenched from the cliffs.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
