throe

Example Sentences

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That broken stair, wonky lock, furnace that’s making death throe noises: Remedy problems before tenants move in.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Ryan Harris found reserves where none seemed to exist to ruffle Pietersen's feathers with consecutive bouncers, and in the same over dismissed Cook, but it proved to be a throe, not a resurgence.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2010

With his customary sense of apocalyptic drama, he declares that "the country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true despair—rent and heaved my heart.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë