lancinating

Example Sentences

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She sighed, half with lancinating regret, and half in gentle disdain of that mercurial creature aged less than thirty.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

The pains are very sharp, lancinating, and burning.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)

Later there is severe lancinating or throbbing pain.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

It included every sort and description of pain as classified by science, into "dull, weary, and incessant," or "sharp lancinating agony."

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

In character they are described as a deep intense aching, with occasional severe or excruciating, sharp, lancinating pains.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various