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 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
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
Whenever he felt the sharp pangs of homesickness he had come back here to his old enemies, where he didn’t feel quite so out of place.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
