painful

Example Sentences

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His Sunday show appearances have grown progressively more painful to watch.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Colicchio didn’t like the painful early mornings and solitude of being alone in his head in the water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she was "devastated" by the allegations against Chavez and her memory of him was now "painful".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Classifying a patient as cured also allows them to avoid intrusive, and sometimes painful, screening tests, like bone marrow biopsies.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

But their victory, painful as it was to witness, had also exposed their vulnerability.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis