gut-wrenching

Definitions

Examples

• Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.

• Since coffee can irritate the gut, she suggests opting for herbal tea instead.

• Koenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.

• Other methane is exhaled by microscopic organisms directly, as in the human gut.

• Now the gut was fueled not by Romanée-Conti and Château d'Yquem but by brandy--and a hell of a lot of it.

• "I don't believe in such folly," cried Dorothy angrily, wrenching her hand from the woman's grasp.

• As we turned the crest of the hill and began the descent into the wooded gut, my companion looked back and waved his hand.

• Never strike a fish hard with the fly, either on gut or hair, if the latter, a breakage is almost sure to follow a violent jerk.

• What are termed water knots are the best for tying your gut or hair together, the tighter they are drawn the faster they become.

• Take a length of fine round silk worm gut, half a yard of silk well waxed, (wax if possible of the same colour,) take a No.