pangs

Example Sentences

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If the reader starts to feel pangs of resentment about this laundry list of expectations — well, we’re reminded that marriage is hard for a man too.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

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

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

On “Cherry Blue,” piano-like tones echo inside a canyon of reverb, triggering pangs of loneliness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

We watched her take the medication, then experience what followed: painful cramping, pangs of guilt, waves of relief and the realization she now bore a new, lifelong emotional scar that wasn’t caused by her mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

Food found along the highway, or the offerings from a friendly hand would ease the pangs of hunger.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls