anguished
Example Sentences
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Scenes of celebration at the prison gates included several prisoners with shaved heads who shouted "We are free!" as they exited, ending an anguished wait by their families.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
We would live in a swirl of anguished mass confusion.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2026
Her character has tracked him down for a reckoning that is all the more anguished for being so dangerously ambiguous.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
“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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
I still hear from anguished kids, but far less often; coming in a smaller stream, their stories are both more manageable and less painful.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
