wrenched

The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her.

The Unforgiven Patricia MacDonald 1981

On the prison authorities going to perform the preliminaries for the execution, they found the prisoner armed with a chain wrenched from the wall of his cell, with which he kept them all at bay for a long time, notwithstanding that hartshorn and chloroform were used to overcome him.

The New York papers give 1861

Yet Microsoft's stock price performance has stagnated these last 10 years, while Apple has soared to its current status as the world's most valuable tech firm, a title wrenched away from Microsoft just last week.

How Apple topped Microsoft 2010

“Plants and trees without the proper pre-Mayflower lineage are called ‘invasive exotics’ and are wrenched from the soil to die,” Yee wrote in a local newspaper editorial.

San Francisco in Hole, Continues Digging 2006

“Plants and trees without the proper pre-Mayflower lineage are called ‘invasive exotics’ and are wrenched from the soil to die,” Yee wrote in a local newspaper editorial.

San Francisco in Hole, Continues Digging 2006

“Plants and trees without the proper pre-Mayflower lineage are called ‘invasive exotics’ and are wrenched from the soil to die,” Yee wrote in a local newspaper editorial.

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Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally.

Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

After dinner at North Park, the gang (along with Flim, somehow wrenched from the chains of editing those woeful women) went to have ice cream at the Manila Peninsula.

notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

After dinner at North Park, the gang (along with Flim, somehow wrenched from the chains of editing those woeful women) went to have ice cream at the Manila Peninsula.

Archive 2003-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

It is born at the very moment of our birth: as we are wrenched from the Whole we fall into an alien land.

Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture 1990