ordeal
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Trying to sum up how they both feel about the ordeal they have been through, Loxie said: "Words can't describe it."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Her ordeal lasted about 30 minutes and involved one caller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
During the ordeal, he said that God presented himself to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
I was surprised by how indifferent he sounded about the entire ordeal.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Soon I understood why the train car had smelled so bad, and would only smell worse before this ordeal was through.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
In the climatic entry in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Icelandic trilogy about a boy’s passage through ordeals on land and sea, the battered young hero takes refuge in a village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
However, Mr. Starritt keeps his leads center stage and ensures that throughout their professional trials and personal ordeals they remain captivating presences and sympathetic enough to root for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But, along with graphic descriptions of Fremlin’s predatory behavior, she explores how Munro, a frequent New Yorker contributor, mined both her own difficult childhood and her daughter’s ordeals in her fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
It is yet to be fixed - and her neighbours are going through similar ordeals with rats.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Food and fire and rest had helped restore him after the ordeals of their journey, but he seemed sadder now, sullen, with a weary, haunted look about the eyes.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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