pangs

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 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