ordeal

Example Sentences

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"You are very much in my thoughts and prayers, and I hope that you will now be able to rest and recover from this devastating ordeal."

From BBC

"Life put a man on my path who has the same values, the same principles as me - and who has also been through many ordeals in his life."

From BBC

With a decent therapist, I will eventually recover from the whole ordeal with my mother.

From Literature

The idea of creeping into it, without any idea of where he was going or when the ordeal would end, was frightful.

From Literature

“Robinson Crusoe” concerned a longer ordeal: Defoe had drawn on the true account of a Scottish sailor who was marooned on an island near Chile, borrowing themes from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

From The Wall Street Journal