pangs

Example Sentences

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If the reader starts to feel pangs of resentment about this laundry list of expectations — well, we’re reminded that marriage is hard for a man too.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

The book cover trend, imbued with nostalgia for childhood, promises fiction that grapples with the pangs of adulthood in an age of precarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

"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

What he saw there made him feel he had swallowed a small live kitten, but he could almost enjoy these pangs, for in his pocket was Mr. Hancocks silver.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes