ordeal

Though their countries are at war, the princess promises “to do all in her power to help them survive their ordeal and get them home to their mothers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Both parents went into the sea and tried to save them as they were swept out by the current, he added, and the whole ordeal happened in less than 10 minutes.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

President Emmanuel Macron said "the nation is standing with" the victims of this "terrible ordeal".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

And three flights of stairs with an armful of groceries is already an ordeal for humans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The Wild Child has imprinted on me. I was the first thing she saw after her ordeal in the forest.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Det Supt Eleanor Welsh, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "These women have waited three or four decades for these verdicts and bravely relived their ordeals in a bid to secure justice."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In the climatic entry in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Icelandic trilogy about a boy’s passage through ordeals on land and sea, the battered young hero takes refuge in a village.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

That might be more feature than bug, but I can’t say I felt much of anything for the characters, or was concerned whether the Bowdens would emerge from their ordeals a stronger family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

That was a dramatic improvement over recent weekends, when social media lit up with complaints of hour-and-a-half ordeals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The intruder was weak from his ordeals and winded from the climb, and it took little effort to subdue him.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood