ordeal
Example Sentences
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In recent days, local leaders hired an outside team of former federal prosecutors to investigate whether any town elected official or employee committed wrongdoing in connection with the ordeal.
However, Miranda added that the doting mother had "recovered well from her ordeal".
From BBC
Mr. Krivak captures the terror and tenderness of their ordeal, and he builds to an ending of exceptional catharsis.
Resident Marcus Warner says the latest police search has "upset a few people", because it is a reminder that this ordeal "obviously isn't over".
From BBC
He so desperately wanted this ordeal to be over with.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
