ordeal
Example Sentences
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The complex and time-consuming ordeal has even spawned a cottage industry of consultants to help people navigate it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Ultimately, the crew resat him elsewhere, but the ordeal took some time.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Relatives of those killed in the 1989 spoke of their ordeal at the appeal trial last week.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Another Manx resident, Garry Bolton reported a similar ordeal in Turkey, when he travelled there with his partner for her birthday - but said they never made it past the airport.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
But knowing that Zeitoun’s ordeal was caused instead by systemic ignorance and malfunction—and perhaps long-festering paranoia on the part of the National Guard and whatever other agencies were involved—was unsettling.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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