excruciation

Example Sentences

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Every time she talks it’s pure excruciation, and she never stops talking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Their three African predecessors in quarterfinals — Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010 — all went to extra time before their closing defeats riddled with excruciation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

BONGPYEONG, South Korea — For Maggie Voisin, four years of waiting had distilled into 20 minutes of excruciation, of watching one skier after the next fall out of the sky and then wondering.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2018

I find them embarrassing to the point of excruciation.

From New York Times • May 2, 2013

His calves were before me; and I waited in excruciation for discovery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson