Example Sentences

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There are few things Americans agree on these days, but one is a shared delight in the anguishes of the Durham, N.C., basketball behemoth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

If the status quo triumphs, his enemies will have to find a new scapegoat for the anguishes of a divided city in the throes of reinvention.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2022

It may be on stage rather than screen, but Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin, currently running at the National Theatre, also applies mordant humour to the anguishes and indignities of reproductive life.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

Their anguishes are likewise balanced, so you never know where to land your sympathy.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2018

Anne used to wonder, in her dignified anguishes of love forbidden, if she could ever make him understand how he looked when he smiled.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice