Sentence examples for a wrenching experience from inspiring English sources

Mr. Putin described his separation from the K.G.B. after the attempted coup against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in August 1991 as a wrenching experience.

It was a wrenching experience.

But then, says Carmichael, making the whole final season had been a wrenching experience.

The impeachment procedure is remembered as a wrenching experience, to be embarked on at the country's peril.

"It's been a wrenching experience now for 15 or 20 years," said Prof. R. Scott Appleby, a historian of religion at the University of Notre Dame.

RILHAC-RANCON, FRANCE — For many people in France, the loss of Air France Flight 447 almost two weeks ago has been a wrenching experience.

Watching your child compete is a singularly wrenching experience.

Dr. J. Stewart Black, managing director of the Center for Global Assignments, a consulting firm based in San Diego that works with executives going and coming from abroad, said that two-thirds of the returning executives and their family members he had interviewed described repatriation as a more wrenching experience than the overseas postings themselves.

I can tell you this is a heart wrenching experience as it shows the pain of those left behind when an addicted member dies from an overdose, accident, suicide, homicide, or medical complication.

A year later, Michel had an even more wrenching experience watching Gleason, a documentary about her and her husband's experience with ALS.

It was a tragic, heart wrenching experience watching my biggest fan slowly pass away.