ordeal

Example Sentences

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He was still wearing what he slept in — black shorts and a T-shirt — when the agents arrested him, he told The Times in his first interview with a news outlet since his ordeal began.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a culmination of the themes that the director has discussed across his body of work, conveyed here in the reflective and gripping ordeal of a regular man standing for what he believes in.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Dickmann says it was only an "unbelievable support group" of younger forum members that helped him get through the ordeal.

From BBC

He also said people going “through this horrible ordeal of cancer or other things” have realized that “this is something that makes them feel better.”

From MarketWatch

Within a few days, the internet had moved on, but for Ms Cabot, her ordeal had only just begun.

From BBC