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Example sentences for "wracking"

Lexicographically close words:
woxe; woxen; wrack; wracke; wracked; wracks; wrait; wraith; wraiths; wrang
  1. Despite these facts I was reluctant to go through the nerve-wracking process again, especially since I was now completely hairless and found the idea of publicly displaying that trait in a department store utterly repulsive.

  2. Although each step sent a wracking pain through her leg she made no sound of protest.

  3. Every time she shifted to a new position wracking pains shot through her body.

  4. In the meantime, out on the Black Knob spotter tower, Betty and Grandfather Norton were wracking their brains for answers to all these problems.

  5. She had evidently spent a sleepless and wracking eight hours.

  6. Whenever this glowing tip encountered any obstacle, that obstacle disappeared in an explosion world-wracking in its intensity.

  7. Endlessly, day after day, the nerve-wracking torture went on, until the frantic subjects could bear no more.

  8. A war-head touched steel plating and there ensued a world-wracking explosion of atomic iron.

  9. It was hard in starting, then came easily; only the last pull resulted in a subdued and nerve-wracking screech as the metal curved out of the hard wood.

  10. He sat down at last on the crest, a stitch wracking his side.

  11. Here we stand looking at these footprints like Robinson Crusoe looking at Friday's, and talking about burglars, and wracking our brains wondering where he came in, and it must have been Hercules all the while.

  12. After nearly an hour's exasperated wracking of her brains she gave it up in disgust and stalked out of the station.

  13. The Last Run of the Scavenger To Greg Hunter the siege of the orbit-ship had been a nerve-wracking game of listening and waiting for something to happen.

  14. They had been talking with the Major for hours, going over every facet of the story, wracking their brains for the answer .

  15. There are several figures of butterflies, like those shown in plate CXXXI, a, in which the modifications of wings and body have proceeded still further, and the only features which refer them to insects are the jointed antennæ.

  16. They are not outlined with defined lines, but are of the original color of the bowl, and appear as two ghost-like figures surrounded by a dense spattering of red spots, similar in technic to the figure of the human hand.

  17. One of these is a curved crook etched on a black ground.

  18. I waked up coughing and wracking as if my body were going to burst.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wracking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.