shooting pain

Example Sentences

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She had a "shooting pain" during the Covid pandemic and her GP referred her for a biopsy straight away.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023

Josh Askins woke up in the crawl space of an abandoned house with nausea, chills and a shooting pain in his legs.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

There would be taping it multiple times per day, constant postgame treatment and that lingering feeling of knowing that shooting pain might return at any moment.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2021

“If you have enough inflammation in the area, you can have nerves that have swelling around them as well that could send a shooting pain down the arm,” Ritter explains.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2021

I tried to follow his directions to the letter, but I felt a shooting pain through the front of my right quadriceps and down the back of my left hamstring.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad