pangs

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Yet in examining what at first look like gestures of Chinese geoeconomic supremacy, one detects pangs of worry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

“Of course, I don’t believe that. I have pangs of longing for my home state every day, especially fruits!”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025

They're trying to alleviate the pangs of longing for those not currently with them.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

As the days slid past the image of my father became associated with my pangs of hunger, and whenever I felt hunger I thought of him with a deep biological bitterness.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright