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.
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The roughly 6,000 employees in Kansas City faced agonizing choices: decide whether to accept resignation or early retirement offers by April 14 or risk losing their jobs later.
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Arkansas Online, 21 Apr. 2025
Another has equipment so inadequate that the city has to ship samples to a state lab 150 miles away, causing inefficiencies, agonizing waits for results and delayed response times.
—Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
But to read Antonia’s book is to be reminded how agonizing even a modern, medicalized death can be.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Real fans, however, know that Grey’s Anatomy is actually an emotional torture device overseen by the brilliant and sadistic Shonda Rhimes, an agonizing exercise in grief and loss delivered in weekly installments.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 21 Apr. 2025
Another has equipment so inadequate that the city has to ship samples to a state lab 150 miles away, causing inefficiencies, agonizing waits for results and delayed response times.
—Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
But to read Antonia’s book is to be reminded how agonizing even a modern, medicalized death can be.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Real fans, however, know that Grey’s Anatomy is actually an emotional torture device overseen by the brilliant and sadistic Shonda Rhimes, an agonizing exercise in grief and loss delivered in weekly installments.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Agonizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agonizing. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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