agonizing
accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
Origin of agonizing
1Other words from agonizing
- ag·o·niz·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use agonizing in a sentence
Unlike the movies, where the protagonist always has a witty comeback to make a fool out of a bigot or a bully, I had countless agonizing memories of times I wished I would have said or handled things differently.
It took the two men 45 agonizing minutes to uncover her face, which was blue and unresponsive.
It has forced waiters and bartenders to revert to their agonizing role as public-health enforcers.
‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates | Laura Reiley | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostThe chronicles that detail what happened before that date were the result of an agonizing memory exercise like this one.
So, of course stretch however it benefits you, but remember that if you are experiencing agonizing pain, it’s far more likely to be doing harm than it is to be doing good.
He makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd we all know how long Rick has spent agonizing over how much of his old self to give up in order to stay alive.
The Walking Dead’s ‘Slabtown’: The Real Source of Terror Isn’t Walkers, It’s Rape | Melissa Leon | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat followed was an agonizing spectacle that ended when Lockett died at 7.06 p.m.—43 minutes after the drugs began to flow.
Lethal Injection Leads to the Most Botched Executions | Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt catalogues a massive but doomed police investigation through its agonizing near-misses and mistaken hunches.
A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France | Tracy McNicoll | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was too busy riding shotgun on stagecoaches through the Sierras to sit at a desk agonizing over adverbs.
It was not until all the boxes and parcels must have arrived in the Condamine, that an agonizing thought struck Hugh.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonBetween agonizing moments, she chatted a little, and said it took her mind off her sufferings.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIsabel's brain seemed to eliminate every thought it had ever possessed and hurriedly to remodel down to one agonizing point.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHe turned and suddenly broke into agonizing sobs and then ran down the steps.
He himself was insupportably aware of her, as she sat, doomed and agonizing, in her chair at the head of Brodrick's table.
The Creators | May Sinclair
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