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

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

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

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

Fig’s empty food dish stared at me from the floor, piling on more pangs of guilt.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas