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Our tear ducts definitely got a workout this year, as television offered up a bounty of gut-wrenching, sob-inducing moments.
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Hearing those words was gut-wrenching.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
This seems like an enormously difficult task to me, especially on top of what must be gut-wrenching grief.
—Nicole Russell, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
Particularly with Sunday’s gut-wrenching finish: a Williams interception in the final minute on a pass into the end zone to Kmet that was thrown much too late.
—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Hearing those words was gut-wrenching.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
This seems like an enormously difficult task to me, especially on top of what must be gut-wrenching grief.
—Nicole Russell, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
Particularly with Sunday’s gut-wrenching finish: a Williams interception in the final minute on a pass into the end zone to Kmet that was thrown much too late.
—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gut-wrenching
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“Gut-wrenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gut-wrenching. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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