painfully
Example Sentences
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For Tisum Ghale, the past month has been painfully familiar.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Here is how the painfully cringeworthy back-and-forth played out:
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s account of her daughter’s education makes this point painfully clear, although it seems lost on her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Co-editors Daysha Broadway and Thompson-Hernandez nimbly leap back in time to that day so we can see her optimism for ourselves — and, yes, her smile is painfully pretty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sadako’s heart was still thumping painfully against her ribs when the race was over.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
