rack
noun
a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited.
rackingly
-
a word derived from
rack.
Example Sentences
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For the viewer, the wait is rackingly tense, as real as a newsreel.
From Time Magazine Archive
My lungs as usual were fed up with all this work, and from now on would only go rackingly through the motions.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Francie wept quietly and rackingly, tears of shame and fear.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
He began to laugh, with strange, quick catchings of the breath: to laugh tumultuously, rackingly, unendurably.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
He is so sore he cannot sit; when he goes his joints hurt rackingly.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
