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

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

“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

I feel that I’m lucky to be alive to write novels today, when the whole world is caught in the pangs of war and change.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright