pangs

Example Sentences

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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

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

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

In the evenings, spooning in his stew or cutting up his meat, Luke felt pangs of guilt now.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix