gut-wrenching
Example Sentences
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“To make the decision was gut-wrenching because it was months and months of mulling it over with my parents and my brother,” said Susan Wong-Young, the daughter of Heart’s owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
She describes it as "gut-wrenching" to receive the email from GVI at the start of the month.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
In “The House of Mirth,” Edith Wharton’s gut-wrenching Gilded Age tragedy, Lily Bart, beautiful and elegant and poor, has been raised to marry for money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Pixar films are known for their gut-wrenching sincerity, speaking to kids with as much candor as they do adults.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
The first thing I remember about being a person living in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1940s is the gut-wrenching fear in my heart and in my tummy that I was in danger.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
