The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unforgiven] Reference

Maelgrim smiled, and the familiarity of the expression wrenched his sister's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

For a moment he stood peering in through the window and then without a word wrenched open the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fashion in Shrouds]

It is born at the very moment of our birth: as we are wrenched from the Whole we fall into an alien land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference

A few short weeks before it had by the flowing of British blood, by our own Division, been wrenched from the German grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

At the cost of hardship and unheard-of efforts, you have just wrenched from the Germans one of their best and richest colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting France] Reference

He was hurled back against the stone supports of the bridge, his sword wrenched from his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Warriors]

He whispered bitterly, feeling the starred sword wrenched from his side, "One riddle and one door.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpist in the Wind]

Or to find the child whose cry wrenched me from my fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescued From A Dream] Reference

Taken completely by surprise, Percy was wrenched forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Several times he stumbled, and once he wrenched his ankle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

He resisted confronting the boy, and this wrenched him deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comes After Cato] Reference

He had wrenched the shells free and was trying to open them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

"Oh!" screamed Betty, the words wrenched from her dry throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference

He twisted violently, then he was gone, wrenched from my grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood In The Water] Reference

Madge and Phyllis had had their oars wrenched from their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

Did you hear that his horse had wrenched its shoulder yesterday?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

The Communist Party has wrenched the nation into the 21st century.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s Silicon Ceiling] Reference

Then Gore again wrenched Bradley's flood-relief votes out of context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bumps Along The High Road] Reference

Maren Le Moyne wrenched herself free and lifted her face to look at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Was the future of the Internet wrenched onto a new path at the end of 2005?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Net Neutrality: It All Depends On What You Fear] Reference

As he stood there listening, a sense of utter helplessness wrenched at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

A sudden jump of the rolling can wrenched Percy's right hand from its hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

     He wrenched his hand between their slick bodies to touch her scar.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Never Thought You Wanted] Reference

He wrenched at the tarnished brass nob, then stepped back and kicked the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Anything] Reference

He wrenched his hands free and lunged at her with a howl, screeching and clawing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The man-faced boy] Reference

One diorama shows the rich African culture from which Jamestown slaves were wrenched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamestown, Virginia: How To Make History Cool] Reference

But, wrenched out of its original context, the show's satire packs little Suffolk punch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great British Country Fete] Reference

I had it carried inside of the Howard House, and laid on a door wrenched from its hinges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

     Pretty wrenched free and spun onto stage as her mama yelled, “Get back here!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretty] Reference

She had wrenched her dad fromScientific AmericanorTinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyorCosmosorOmni.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have You Seen Me?] Reference

Our hero caught it in the center, and by a dexterous twist wrenched it from the rascal's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Dec wrenched the accordion door closed just as Smithley lead Ivy's cousins into the viewing room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petey Prickles Vs. Funeral Steve: An ALL-NEW Petey Prickles Caper!] Reference

She wrenched herself free and whisked out of the room like a huge curtain being swept aside at a movie theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body Divided, 3] Reference

Somewhere along the line, probably long before they became drug dealers, that belief had been wrenched out of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Steps Toward Racial Harmony] Reference

Itstruck me they would have been as good for mopping tears as they were for binding gorse-wrenched ankles during cliff-top rescues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference

There are few towns on earth so wrenched between nature and human artifice, between Old West values and the whims of the superrich at play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Mountain High Life] Reference