ordeal

Example Sentences

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"It's important for me to spend time with my family and fiancee, who have been incredibly supportive and also worried during this whole ordeal."

From BBC

Meanwhile, she is posting on social media about the ordeal.

From Los Angeles Times

The charges ultimately collapsed, but not before putting Drake through a harrowing ordeal detailed by The New Yorker, “60 Minutes” and the documentary “Silenced.”

From Salon

"The first few hours were terrible," Tarazona says, recalling the beginning of an ordeal that would last more than four and a half years.

From BBC

Passengers touching down at airports in Australia, France, Germany, India, Russia, Taiwan and beyond told of sleepless nights and days-long ordeals to get out of the Middle East when war erupted.

From Barron's