ordeal
Example Sentences
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He displays a remarkable lack of bitterness and enormous dignity, given his ordeal by newspaper.
More details of their ordeals have since emerged in the days since Monday morning.
From BBC
He was still wearing what he slept in — black shorts and a T-shirt — when the agents arrested him, he told The Times in his first interview with a news outlet since his ordeal began.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a culmination of the themes that the director has discussed across his body of work, conveyed here in the reflective and gripping ordeal of a regular man standing for what he believes in.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr Dickmann says it was only an "unbelievable support group" of younger forum members that helped him get through the ordeal.
From BBC
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