Examples of painful in a Sentence
I got a painful sunburn.
We can't ignore our country's painful history of slavery.
His questions brought up a lot of painful memories.
It was painful to watch.
Recent Examples on the Web
Right now, however, with the war in Gaza a costly and painful burden for six months and counting, Netanyahu is risking a much wider war.
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Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
That task could be painful, but Bogle, now 79, had the empathy, even keel and inquisitiveness to pull it off.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Next came painful and unnecessary feeding tubes, a bogus epilepsy diagnosis and a falsehood that her daughter had leukemia, for which Dee Dee shaved her head often.
—Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
In addition to being painful and, in some cases, impacting your ability to breastfeed comfortably, cracked nipples also open you up to the risk of infection.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 5 Apr. 2024
But the visceral value of these objects sits uneasily beside the painful history of how some of them got there in the first place.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Shin splints become painful when inflammation develops along the tendon and muscle tissue surrounding the tibia.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
The most painful aspect of the economy is the jobs situation.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
But that often painful process taught me that failure is okay.
—Max Gellert, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
That task could be painful, but Bogle, now 79, had the empathy, even keel and inquisitiveness to pull it off.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Next came painful and unnecessary feeding tubes, a bogus epilepsy diagnosis and a falsehood that her daughter had leukemia, for which Dee Dee shaved her head often.
—Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
In addition to being painful and, in some cases, impacting your ability to breastfeed comfortably, cracked nipples also open you up to the risk of infection.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 5 Apr. 2024
But the visceral value of these objects sits uneasily beside the painful history of how some of them got there in the first place.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Shin splints become painful when inflammation develops along the tendon and muscle tissue surrounding the tibia.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
The most painful aspect of the economy is the jobs situation.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
But that often painful process taught me that failure is okay.
—Max Gellert, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Painful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painful. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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