How to Use excruciating in a Sentence

excruciating

adjective

• I have an excruciating headache.
• They described their vacation in excruciating detail.
• Both of them are prone to explosive meltdowns that are excruciating to be part of.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 27 June 2021
• His muscles had been frozen for so long, even the slightest movement was excruciating.
  — CBS News, 25 July 2021
• The heat was excruciating, and for Updike, so was the outcome.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
• Matt has been on the hardest part of my health journey: taking care of me through multiple surgeries and seeing me in excruciating pain.
  — Jess Cording, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Typically the court press corps sits in the courthouse to watch hearings where these moments are laid out in excruciating detail.
  — Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 20 June 2021
• And that poses an excruciating challenge in two overlapping ways.
  — John Harwood, CNN, 20 June 2021
• Despite her wish to die at home, an elderly woman is taken to the hospital by her son, who can no longer bear to watch his mother die in excruciating pain.
  — Virginia Chang, Scientific American, 19 June 2021
• An insulin overdose is an excruciating death marked by uncontrollable tremors.
  — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• Throughout their lives, sickle cell patients may experience excruciating bouts of pain, called a sickle cell crisis.
  — Desiree Hadley, Essence, 27 Sep. 2024
• As a result, Glaudini said, most theaters are in an excruciating holding pattern.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2021
• No matter how many decades have passed, most of us still recall the uncertain, euphoric and excruciating transformative period of teenhood.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
• We’ll be spared an excruciating extubation moment, as those weren’t invented yet, but will Heathcliff hump Cathy’s grave?
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2024
• But the prospect of watching good candidates for ECMO die was excruciating.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Ben Bolch on the softball gold-medal game: For the U.S. softball team, one long excruciating wait will be followed by another.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• Franklin’s ship became mired in ice, and the entire crew succumbed to the elements over an excruciating period of time, forever trapped within the Arctic.
  — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 21 June 2021
• In one long, excruciating take, Rhaenyra gets up to take the baby to the queen.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• By the time my alarm went off, the sheer act of getting out of bed was all-around excruciating.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2022
• The loss of a child is one of the most excruciating pains a parent can endure.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
• This was twice as excruciating: bottom of the 18th inning and still no runs for the home team.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• For one thing, no one liked the movie much (the reviews were excruciating).
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 June 2024
• My body aches, my pain is excruciating, and my bones are in agony.
  — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
• To be sure, this has been the most excruciating run-up to the Olympics of the career of Shiffrin, who’s 26 years old and competing in her third Games.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
• The Tigers are winless in their first six games and their latest loss may have been the most excruciating.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2021
• McKinley had tears in his eyes on the cart and was both distraught and in excruciating pain.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• For more than a year, life for many sriracha lovers has been an excruciating lesson in bland.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Even a slight chill still meant hours of excruciating pain.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• One bite from a bullet ant will leave you with 24 hours of excruciating pain.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024