harrowing

Example Sentences

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It's an eye-opening and harrowing story that lays bare what fame demands of you, and how Morvan struggled to rebuild his life after becoming one of music's biggest punchlines.

From BBC

A 2024 report by a blue-ribbon panel of defense experts makes for harrowing reading about our vulnerability in the next war.

From The Wall Street Journal

Committee chair Philip McGuigan said the group's evidence had been "particularly harrowing" .

From BBC

The inquest into the death of the Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has heard details of a harrowing phone call from his mother to the police on the evening of his disappearance.

From BBC

The path to that point had proven far more harrowing than anyone expected.

From Los Angeles Times