agony

Example Sentences

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What next for Bellamy and Wales after World Cup agony?

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

US television host Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday described her family's "agony" in her first television interview since her mother was apparently kidnapped nearly two months ago in a case that has gripped the nation.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Unlike many sports documentaries, it is as much or more about the agony of defeat as about the thrill of victory.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

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 • Mar. 5, 2026

Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain’s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley