pangs

Example Sentences

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The mother of one brings her son food overnight to ease his hunger pangs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

"We are suffering the pangs of growth because India knows how to handle poverty, not prosperity."

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

At holidays or graduations or milestone birthdays, we’d joke about phantom hunger pangs, gesturing to the empty spot where the foil tray should’ve been.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

He patted Nathan’s back and went back into the hogan, leaving Nathan to suffer through the residual pangs of pain.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young