ordeal
Example Sentences
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Once I got through that ordeal—months of chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant—I took the task up again, this time with new zeal.
Posting about the "terrifying" ordeal on Instagram, the show's head judge said: "I really thought that was it."
From BBC
Finding an affordable place to live in New York City is an ordeal, but it doesn’t have to be as bad as it is.
The seven-time world champion, whose splashy move to Ferrari last winter had been a childhood fantasy, called the whole ordeal a “nightmare.”
His return closes an agonising 11-year ordeal that haunted both his family and the nation.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
