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How to use wracking in a sentence

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It was a little nerve wracking, but at least I didn't freeze up, which is what I was worried about.
It is a wracking emotional journey which never strays from its inspirational purpose.
Hot on the fast lane to stardom, the young guys and gals are wracking brains, boggling minds.
I walk towards him, wracking my brains to remember how I know him, or at the very least, a name.
You're wracking your brains to try and remember Alan's wonderful effort now, aren't you?
As the wracking tears continue to come, the blackness becomes complete and there is something that happens to her mind.
I'll do the wracking of the brains to think of something new to write each time.
The disaster agency said tremors were still wracking the volcano, but that scientists didn't expect another major eruption.
But if those arms help to stem the various rebellions wracking the country, they might actually make it more stable.
Job interviews can be nerve wracking at the best of times, and the build-up is often worse than the process itself.
But alone, we cannot eliminate the causes of the insecurity wracking Haiti.
Interviews are nerve wracking for the most experienced of workers, but especially so when you've never done one.
I have been wracking my brain trying to justify Mayor Bloomberg's decision to allow the New York Marathon to run on Sunday.
Two al Qaeda franchises are both competing and collaborating today in the violence that is wracking Syria and Iraq.
Unfortunately, a lot of the details dissolved from my memory as soon as I got up, and I've been wracking my brain trying to remember exactly what was going on.
Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
I haven't done this since I was in grade school, but the topic I spoke on made the experience less nerve wracking.
But Mr Kaplan reckons that his newly dovish stance is linked, above all, to the dramatic changes wracking Turkey's neighbours.
The wracking and torsional effects due to such an asymmetric transverse weight imbalance would have caused localized stresses and also contributed to the global stress loading imposed on the hull.
When not wracking his brain to apply his analytical training to abstract problems, Kyle can be found training for a marathon, adventuring through Europe, and cheering on the Habs and the Blue Jays.
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There was the wracking suspense of waiting for her, and then, as in a dream, the sound of her voice.
The drum seemed to be wracking and straining itself in the agony of effort, and slight noises came from it at times.
For Muriel, too, had passed a night of wracking reflection, and the dim dawn had found her clear upon one resolve.
I have been wracking my brains in vain to remember what exactly DID happen yesterday.
I've been wracking by brains trying to think which movie I've heard her plummy voice in recently.
She sobbed, but the tears were gone now and they were dry, wracking sobs.
The wracking convulsions which shook Temple's body subsided.
She had evidently spent a sleepless and wracking eight hours.
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