How to Use pain in a Sentence

pain

1 of 2 noun

• It is a story about the joys and pains of life.
• This orange is a pain to peel.
• Rush hour traffic is such a pain.
• I feel a dull pain if I touch the bruise.
• I've had chronic back pain since the accident.
• The medicine provides 12 hours of pain relief.
• The medication may upset your stomach but if you experience acute abdominal pain call your doctor.
• Even with all the scars and with the pain, there’s also joy.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• Soaking your feet can help bring calm and ease some of the pain.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 28 Dec. 2023
• Even the panelists with back and knee pain felt that these helped their joints.
  — Mike Richard, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• There's always two kinds of pains: one that hurts and one that changes you.
  — Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
• You, who heard the wink and humor in 'Blank Space' and maybe even empathized with the pain behind the satire.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• The symptom that had brought her there was a lightning bolt-like pain in her head.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Hollywood strikes may be over, but in many ways the pain has just begun.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• From then on, writing has become a way to cope with pain.
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• But pain from the surgeries and her burns was unbearable.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
• Until that point, great pains had been taken to keep the secret.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• The word mop rarely appears without the word mess, but cleaning up that mess doesn't need to be a pain.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• However, the dean abuses the substance as a drug, rather than to treat pain.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• Our tester found the mattress helped reduce back and neck pain after just a few nights.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• Some have dumped transit for driving The new picture is mixed, but the pain is real.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Those stories and rumors just add to the pain Toni’s family feels.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 11 July 2023
• During phone interviews since the fire, Gomez has shared the great pain of the disaster.
  — Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Since the birth of our nation, Black love has been punctuated with pain.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 13 June 2023
• Neto said his back had improved earlier in the week, but the pain has returned.
  — Annika Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Even if Hilary doesn’t inflict pain on the oil and gas industry, the risks of a storm that could cause problems have risen.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• The technique, known as a stellate ganglion block, has been used for decades to treat all sorts of pain conditions.
  — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2023
• One father detailed his pain for Seal’s wife and four children.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• But older models can be a pain to work with due to their stronger adhesive.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
• There’s more: These four new memoirs invite us to sit with the pleasures and pains of family.
  — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023

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pain

2 of 2 verb

• As much as it pains me to admit it, she was right.
• So they're used to pain, they're used to fighting through it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• This led to surgery, which then led to an addiction to pain killers.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2020
• No need to push to pain to get the benefits of these movements.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 9 Jan. 2023
• But with that gut reaction, Bonds exposed the nerve that pains him the most.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• In general, neck pain refers to pain anywhere from the area at the base of the skull into the shoulders.
  — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
• But many in the crowd were also locals, and their presence pained me.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• What pains me even more: a knee that’s still barking at me three months later.
  — latimes.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• It’s been written that he was addicted to pain killers.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 25 Nov. 2019
• The shortcomings and travails of both countries pain me.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Hence, varicose veins that can cause tingly pain down below.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 14 Aug. 2020
• And though she was pained by the message on her building, Oates-Allen said has decided to own the statement.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2020
• So the butterflies have to endure [the] pain themselves in order to flourish.
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 28 Apr. 2022
• San Diego’s prior home match showed league’s depth, paining Wave.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
• There is no one-size-fits-all approach to pain management.
  — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Bias’ death continues to pain the people who lived through it.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Quinn said people pulling away from he church pained him and other church leaders.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 1 Apr. 2018
• As someone who appreciates when things can be tied in a neat and tidy bow, this pains me a bit.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 14 Feb. 2020
• Having kids of my own, there’s nothing that would pain me more than to see kids having to go without food.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2020
• But that high spirit didn’t last long, and joy reverted to pain and sorrow.
  — Joseph Samuels, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Like Haiti, a nation of layered suffering, L’Asile is used to pain.
  — Anthony Faiola, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
• But should moms really have to cry their way through nursing, or can pain be avoided?
  — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2017
• Frost also is reacting to pain as nurses and doctors work on her, Klinger said.
  — Karen Kucher, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• What’s incontestable is that you’ve been greatly pained by what happened.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• After all, there's nothing like a good candy bar or pain au chocolat to comfort us in times of trouble.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2018
• Still, the thought of yet another migration clearly pains her.
  — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• How else to explain the stomach pains that woke her from her sleep at her Pensacola home Sunday morning?
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Inspiring change What pains Macingwane most of all is that rugby in South Africa is anything but a white man's game.
  — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
• What role should nations play in determining when death is preferable to pain?
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023
• Grilled quail, stuffed with merguez sausage and pain de mais, gets an ode-to-spring medley of fava beans, asparagus and morel mushrooms (chanterelles by now).
  — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019

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