pang

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's

Now 72, she said there was a "bit of a pang" of emotion about handing over treasured letters and other items to the museum.

From BBC

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

From The Wall Street Journal

I’m about to say something sarcastic, but a pang of grief hits me in my core.

From Literature

Inwardly she felt a pang of relief, for in all the mayhem no one had noticed her mistake.

From Literature