agony

Example Sentences

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Cawley described how one day she was lying in her bath in "absolute agony" and decided to look for support groups in the area and found Endometriosis UK.

From BBC

So 80 minutes of real agony but then I managed to play 15 minutes and those 15 minutes I'd really love to play again.

From BBC

Such chairs took the agony out of spending many hours sitting at a desk.

From The Wall Street Journal

Grace’s erotic agony is reductive and a bit ridiculous, although I think the script is also trying to imply that Grace herself is focused on the wrong problems.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s this tight knot of agonies, and humiliations, and social problems, and this is experienced by millions of us in the richest country in the history of the world.”

From Salon