Wrench meaning

Noun: wrench

Pronunciation: (rench)

Wrench meaning:

• A wrench is a tool consisting of a handle with one end designed to hold,twist and turn an object (such as bolt or nut)
• Something unpleasant that causes us to feel emotional pain.

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Robert Hughes – A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Joan Didion – A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

John James Audubon – In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

Sample sentences:

1. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
2. That is a gut-wrenching way to lose a game.It’s just an empty feeling when you lose like that.
3. We’ve got scenarios in which parents were making actual gut-wrenching decisions to hand their child up to the front of a line of transport to get them safe. Parents performed heroic acts to try to keep their children safe, sometimes to the detriment of their own safety.
4. I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way.
5. There are a lot of gut-wrenching, earnings driven disappointments that you have to wade through to be able to come out the other end.
6. It wasn’t that complicated five days ago. But we knew it was going to get a little entertaining here. We were hoping we could get through spring without injuries, but they are going to happen. It just throws a little wrench in there.
7. Earnings season is always volatile and we’re just going to have to watch it. What companies say can throw a monkey wrench into market action or be a catalyst, and we have a lot of big companies reporting in the next few days.
8. It’s a gut-wrenching, agonizing decision. From a talent point of view, I don’t want to lose him. I also realize we need to improve our clubs. It’s very difficult for me to move forward in doing that if I have such uncertainty.
9. At the same time you still have that gut-wrenching feeling that one more catch, one more run, one more tackle, and we’d be known as world champions.
10. I was 23 years old and just a young cop. I walked in and saw this guy with a wrench in his hand. I let him have it.