pangs

Example Sentences

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Even that comes though with pangs of guilt, wondering whether coming to terms with her childlessness, means she did not want it enough, or try hard enough.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

"We are suffering the pangs of growth because India knows how to handle poverty, not prosperity."

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Yet in examining what at first look like gestures of Chinese geoeconomic supremacy, one detects pangs of worry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

At holidays or graduations or milestone birthdays, we’d joke about phantom hunger pangs, gesturing to the empty spot where the foil tray should’ve been.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

They ate meals without water or soup, under the theory that liquid accelerated digestion and quickened the return of hunger pangs.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden