ordeal
Example Sentences
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Ultimately, the crew resat him elsewhere, but the ordeal took some time.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Video of the rescue shows him standing in waist-deep water, telling his rescuers that he never lost faith during his ordeal.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
On March 23, a few days after Halioua’s frightening ordeal, the transport ministry limited flights to one per hour and capped each outgoing flight at 50 passengers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The “Messy” hitmaker told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that she was grateful that she fainted onstage late last year, and framed the scary ordeal as a wake-up call.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Like hundreds of thousands of others who lived along the coast of Tohoku, Ryoichi was at the start of what would be a long, terrifying ordeal.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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