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

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

Farmer: Justin Herbert was wincingly vulnerable doing anything after that hand injury, and it’s easy to imagine that thing getting wrenched in a pile.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

Frodo passed his hand over his brow and wrenched his eyes away from the city on the hill.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien