agony

Example Sentences

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Did Peggy spark the violent ire of someone she harshly criticized in her role of “agony aunt”? Or might her opposition to the building of an expensive real-estate development have prompted her death?

From The Wall Street Journal

In a powerful Commons speech, she said she waited 1,088 days to go to court, with every day being "agony" and the "trauma" made worse by her role in public life.

From BBC

I’m planning to do eight hill repeats, but by my fourth time up, every breath is agony.

From Literature

Jack died almost eight weeks later, with his mother saying her son was "in agony" and his care has since been reviewed as part of a wider exercise.

From BBC

The second thing was that I knew I didn’t want to put myself through that agony again.

From Literature