anguish
Example Sentences
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She said the girl's family had been informed on Monday evening, adding: "It is impossible for us to adequately put into words the pain and anguish they are feeling right now."
From BBC
Her character has tracked him down for a reckoning that is all the more anguished for being so dangerously ambiguous.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite the glory of his singing and the enviable success of his award-lavished career, he made his life of enormous privilege seem like a tale of unremitting anguish and woe.
From Los Angeles Times
He worked closely with Tissé to ensure that huge close-ups of human faces distorted with anguish or fury would exert the maximum effect on audiences of the time.
“I don’t want you—I want Walter!” she snaps at her computer companion when he responds sympathetically to a sudden, anguished access of grief.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
