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Examples of agonizing in a Sentence
a long and agonizing battle with cancer
She made the agonizing decision to cancel the trip.
The agonizing wait was finally over.
He was in agonizing pain.
Recent Examples on the Web
A week later, New York, in the midst of an agonizing losing streak, played a home game in Bridgeport.
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David Waldstein Mimi D’autremont, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
The big question is whether current conditions will prove to be growing pains (however agonizing) on the way to a cleaner transportation economy.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine agonizing hours, expiring the next morning in a cramped room rented by Union veteran Willie Clark.
—Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
What started off as an adventure in paradise for Heslop has now become a three-year-long agonizing mystery for her friends and family.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
To finish second in such agonizing fashion was bittersweet but also formative.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
Her family’s story offers a glimpse into the plight of the hostages’ families, six agonizing months into the war launched in the wake of that stunning assault.
—Shira Pinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
By Gary Shteyngart
Photographs by Gary Shteyngart
Day 1
MY FIRST GLIMPSE of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, from the window of an approaching Miami cab, brings on a feeling of vertigo, nausea, amazement, and distress.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
After signing the Sino-Soviet pact, Stalin and Mao sealed a division of revolutionary labor—Beijing pushed the communist cause with new energy in Asia, and Moscow focused on Europe—that forced agonizing debates over resources and priorities in Washington.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024
David Waldstein Mimi D’autremont, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
The big question is whether current conditions will prove to be growing pains (however agonizing) on the way to a cleaner transportation economy.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine agonizing hours, expiring the next morning in a cramped room rented by Union veteran Willie Clark.
—Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
What started off as an adventure in paradise for Heslop has now become a three-year-long agonizing mystery for her friends and family.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
To finish second in such agonizing fashion was bittersweet but also formative.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
Her family’s story offers a glimpse into the plight of the hostages’ families, six agonizing months into the war launched in the wake of that stunning assault.
—Shira Pinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
By Gary Shteyngart
Photographs by Gary Shteyngart
Day 1
MY FIRST GLIMPSE of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, from the window of an approaching Miami cab, brings on a feeling of vertigo, nausea, amazement, and distress.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
After signing the Sino-Soviet pact, Stalin and Mao sealed a division of revolutionary labor—Beijing pushed the communist cause with new energy in Asia, and Moscow focused on Europe—that forced agonizing debates over resources and priorities in Washington.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Agonizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agonizing. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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