pain
Example Sentences
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And if you name your pain and your craziness, there’s something healing in that for yourself and others.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Damage to the cartilage in his knees was causing such severe pain that he could barely walk up and down stairs.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
One of those faces new to me belonged to Charles R., who I was advised by second period had “the cooties” and must therefore, on pain of social suicide, be shunned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
I felt a quick pain in my chest.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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