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In its most recent quarter, the French company reported total sales of just under €302 million ($317 million), a gut-wrenching drop of 50% from a year ago.—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2025 Currently, families are forced to make gut-wrenching choices between housing and health care, groceries and medicine.—Christine Quinn, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025 Losing your luggage is an absolutely gut-wrenching experience.—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2025 After the New Artist award was presented, there was a gut-wrenching montage that showed the unthinkable devastation wrought by the Los Angeles wildfires last month.—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gut-wrenching
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