For, dropping his cigar from between his teeth, this second Italian, while still holding the boy's hand, gave his wrist a wrenching twist that forced Captain Jack over to the ground.
Young Benson struck Don two hard blows in the face, next wrenching the stick away from him.
Sir Iohn, sir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cause, the false way.
Winning mean prey by causeless strife, Wrenching from ruined Lowland swain 130 His herds and harvest reared in vain-- Methinks a soul, like thine, should scorn The spoils from such foul foray borne.
At any rate, it quickly yielded to the strong hands wrenching at its mouth, and began to slacken its speed.
But Dick's arms shot up, his hands catching the haft and wrenching the ugly weapon away from its wielder.
Wrenching the enemy soldier off his balance, Prescott laid him low, the man's bayoneted rifle falling across his body.
Wrenching from the vision she handed back the revolver to me.
Up he scrambled, cursing, and wrenching at his revolver.
The great dog had braced himself, with all his might, for the muscle-wrenching heave.
Fury at the weird beast and the wrenching strain on his own nerves lent eagerness to his acceptance of the idea.
It sounded like both, a splitting of glass, a wrenching of lock spring or something.
German soldier at the wall, and wrenching his wrist from the clasp of the dying man, Blakely sprang recklessly to his feet and to the mouth of the cave just as Stern's carbine broke the stillness with resounding roar.
Before the words were out of his mouth Rake threw himself on him with a bound like lightning, and, wrenching the whip out of his hands, struck him a slashing, stinging blow across his face.
So he took the collies away, leaving her to range her band of sheep in terrible labor, mind-wrenching loneliness, over the sage-gray hills.
Mackenzie sat up presently, with throbbing head, a feeling of bulging in his eyeballs, his neck stiff from the wrenching it had received.
Then it was that the psychological impulse dashed upon little Bud, wrenching out of his mind his intent of manslaughter.
He had lolled upon the iron cot through the soul-wrenching hours of countless nights, staring up through the black toward the concrete ceiling.
This is my business," declared Geoffrey, wrenching the reins from her grasp.
When Bransome drove away Thurston rolled himself in the thick brown blanket, and sank into slumber under the lee of the dead man's dwelling, through which a maple tree had grown from the inside, wrenching off the shingle roof.
Yes, till yesterday,' hoarsely gasped Sophy, sincerity wrenchingout the protest by force.
As she closed the purse at the imminent risk of wrenchingoff its fastenings she looked at me severely and pursed up her lips.
As I stood talking to Doctor Norbury, I could hear him knocking out the nails and wrenching up the lids; and when I entered the doorway leading to the stairs, I could still hear him.
Suddenly wrenching his hand from Rickart's grip he hurled the glass of liquor with all his might against the mirror of the bar.
Dr Rumsey; and, wrenching away his arm, he strode off towards the town, leaving Geoffrey staring as if he were stunned.
While he is wrenching the poison away, the report of fire-arms.
He peered a moment into the pit, realizing for that instant the wrenching away of life's supports, the plunge, the sinking to the bottom.
She took his hand in hers, a pang of remorseful pity wrenching her heart.
Then he turned from her without a word, and wrenching open the flap of the tent, flung it back and stood in the open doorway staring out into the right.
We can't leave them like that," she gasped, wrenching the revolver from the holster at her waist.
The bear clung to the antlers, wrenching and twisting, now trying to pull his antagonist to the ground, now striving to reach past his pronged defences and rend his throat.
Such an accident also frequently occurs by the foot getting fastened in a hole in the floor; the wrenching is the result of the animal's attempt to liberate it.
This may occur from misstep when the animal is moving rapidly, and the twisting or wrenching of the foot is sufficient to rupture partially the ligaments which bind the bones together at that part.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrenching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
