pangs

Example Sentences

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The mother of one brings her son food overnight to ease his hunger pangs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The book cover trend, imbued with nostalgia for childhood, promises fiction that grapples with the pangs of adulthood in an age of precarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Feeling the pangs of hunger gnawing at my stomach, I decided I would stop and eat at the next stream I found.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls