anguished
Example Sentences
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Her character has tracked him down for a reckoning that is all the more anguished for being so dangerously ambiguous.
From Los Angeles Times
“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.
Buddy, though anguished by Odd’s arrival, warms to the idea when he spies Odd stealing Sook’s cameo brooch.
The Hollywood Reporter called the film "an anguished portrait of what it takes for women to survive", and a "clear-eyed, restrained, moving story" of two young women finding solace in each other.
From BBC
She cut an anguished figure throughout January's Australian Open final, where she was out-hit by Madison Keys.
From BBC
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