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    Use "agonising" in a sentence

    agonising example sentences

    agonising


    1. incredible agonising pain that flooded his senses


    2. I mean what would it be like I knew it was a journey you had to take alone but would the pain be agonising, and would I meet my friends Helen and my parents in the next life? As a Christian I had to believe that I would but god and religion got to be questioned seriously when you saw some of the things that had happened in this war


    3. The guard led her through the gate before Raven could answer, and with an agonising bang, the door slammed shut behind her, his last image of her burned upon his retinas


    4. Broshee whimpered softly, convinced she was about to die a slow and agonising death


    5. The last time he’d felt such an intensely burning, agonising pain was when he’d been kicked in the testicles, back in his third year in prison


    6. Jesus’ prayer was of agonising intensity, in that He knew, unlike us, the agony that


    7. Jesus’ prayer was of agonising intensity, in that He knew, unlike us, exactly what was


    8. For an agonising heartbeat, she couldn’t even recognise who had placed them there, but then the realisation swept over her


    9. He could not feel the agonising stretch in his arms, the splinter of pain at his right shoulder


    10. It was the most agonising thing he had ever had to bear

    11. The lilting song of the movement stormed Simon’s thoughts for an agonising moment before it stilled again


    12. The consumed wine did nothing to help dull the slow and agonising death that eventually befell him the next day from the fatal wound


    13. So much of your life-energy is wasted in endless debate, procrastination, agonising and worry about the effects of your decisions


    14. He had hardly slept the previous night agonising over what the best plan of action would be and had extreme difficulty reconciling a shutdown which would kill the foetuses with his personal ethical beliefs


    15. Three months sharing food, tent and transport with five others was going to make concealment of my penchant for attractive young men somewhat difficult, so after much agonising I'd decided to come clean


    16. In agonising pain he pushed up on his hands and with an almighty effort was able to get his back off the concrete floor


    17. He pushed back on his arms as hard as he could and after an agonising few seconds was far enough to be safe from the now slowing spread of the sludge


    18. Jane explained what was happening to her guests in the agonising minutes she waited till Emily arrived at her house to pick her up


    19. The guy went down like the sack of shit he was holding his side and trying to deal with the agonising and crippling pain


    20. devastating doubt and the agonising possibility

    21. Your death would be slow and agonising


    22. Towards the end of this agonising conflict, devastating thousand bomber raids on German cities had become common place


    23. In this sixth year of agonising conflict there were few who genuinely believed that Germany could still win the war


    24. he was able to free it from its casing one agonising inch at a time


    25. To think he had been agonising all this time about whose


    26. So each bank was going through the same agonising process, trying to discover how and where its infallible security system was failing, or whether it might possibly be an insider, a member of the staff somewhere


    27. An agonising groan escaped my lips as I pulled my bloodied arms around my chest, trying to hold myself together while my heart shattered into a thousand pieces


    28. “I thought we… I didn’t consciously… I couldn’t…” Byron spluttered, the agonising pain of his returned mortality wet and sticky at his abdomen


    29. This way he would stop agonising over the shedding and would be less stressed


    30. ‘What? He was losing his hair and agonising over it

    31. He came out swearing and saying that he was throwing the bloody thing out because it was not doing him any good, and that he was only agonising over seeing the sink full of hairs every day


    32. Before long, she was certain that she was about to die as the commander used his full force in carrying out the punishment; the pain was agonising, so she cried out, begging him to stop, gasping through the intense pain that she would confess


    33. How should she be introduced to the servants and elderly residents of the almshouse? Alice was agonising over the point when an open carriage arrived with Betty and a group of midwives


    34. His tongue failed him and he spluttered to an agonising halt


    35. While some students quietly complied and continued their studies uninhibited, some students from disciplined background detest and resist such overtures but not without bruises and agonising tales of anguish


    36. I could not come to terms with the agonising fact that he prefers unremitting exploitation of innocent female students as his choice of pleasure and cynical satisfaction


    37. Months passed before I could physically say that my parents had died, as though somehow it wouldn’t be real until I uttered those agonising words


    38. Instinct told me to pull it out, yet when I took hold of the handle, the pain was agonising, and as I tugged, I found the bloody thing would not move


    39. Over supper I gave Arthur the entire account of the ambush, every detail I could think of with Howell making agonising apologies for not hearing me call the retreat and pull out


    40. Agonising, the torment of learning to ride a

    41. Agonising, aware of what they intended, Hanor fell to his knees, crying bitter tears


    42. Her husband wanted her to have a termination and, after days of agonising, she agreed


    43. for the crushing, agonising pain to come


    44. procrastination, agonising and worry about the effects of your


    45. to the desperately agonising conclusion that she


    46. release from within by way of the most agonising and terrorising scream he had ever


    47. victim's body in the torture chambers, their agonising screams sounding a cruel promise to


    48. the agonising desire to remain attached to that nipple for forever…agonising because I


    49. In spite of all his agonising inward struggle, he never for a single instant all that time could believe in the carrying out of his plans


    50. "But when has such a thing happened? I never have anything to do with the police! And why just to-day?" he thought in agonising bewilderment


























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    Synonyms for "agonising"

    agonising agonizing excruciating harrowing torturesome torturing torturous

    "agonising" definitions

    extremely painful