anguished
Example Sentences
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It’s the emotional place where all the stories in this spirited, anguished book begins.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
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
“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
Although he anguished over the future and worried about this country that seemed so impossibly hard to grow up in now, he tried to block it out of his mind.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
