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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Posting about the "terrifying" ordeal on Instagram, the show's head judge said: "I really thought that was it."

From BBC

Throughout Saturday, many passengers shared their ordeals with the BBC, with some calling the situation "carnage".

From BBC

We know from the start that Pi lives through his ordeal, and only toward the very end does “Life of Pi” introduce the possibility of alternative explanations for what happened at sea.

From Washington Post

The Kherson prisoners’ ordeal began a week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.

From New York Times