wrenched

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

The film explores what’s funny — and terrifyingly truthful — about being wrenched into adulthood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

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