shooting pain

Example Sentences

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He miraculously seemed to know all about her marriage problems, the shooting pain in her right leg - things Mungnee had not shared with them.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024

Josh Askins woke up in the crawl space of an abandoned house with nausea, chills and a shooting pain in his legs.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

He instantly felt a shooting pain in his hip so intense he was unable to move.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2022

“If you have enough inflammation in the area, you can have nerves that have swelling around them as well that could send a shooting pain down the arm,” Ritter explains.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2021

I held back, and my muscles cramped, shooting pain through my calves.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine