ordeal
Example Sentences
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The complex and time-consuming ordeal has even spawned a cottage industry of consultants to help people navigate it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Ultimately, the crew resat him elsewhere, but the ordeal took some time.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Jodie said the harassment was distressing, but it was the police process that made her ordeal worse.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Relatives of those killed in the 1989 spoke of their ordeal at the appeal trial last week.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
After Harriot was born in 1856, Stanton wrote to Anthony that she was “very happy, that the terrible ordeal is passed & that the result is another daughter.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing ordeal
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