mental pain
Example Sentences
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Zwerner’s attorneys argued school administrators ignored pleas from staff members to search the boy for a gun and Zwerner sought damages to compensate for her post-traumatic stress disorder and physical and mental pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
“I have learned over time that the mental pain is related to the inability to move.”
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
She asks for compensatory damages, including "lost wages" and money for "mental pain and anguish".
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
He is seeking compensatory damages for lost wages, earnings, commissions, retirement benefits and other employee benefits as well as general damages for mental pain, emotional distress and loss of earning capacity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
He was in a state of tremulous anger, of discouragement, of heart-sickness, and his head drooped lower and lower, and his hands clasped themselves on the table before him in the tightness of mental pain.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
