How to Use agonizing in a Sentence

agonizing

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• She made the agonizing decision to cancel the trip.
• He was in agonizing pain.
• The agonizing wait was finally over.
• On its own, the death of any child is a painful and agonizing time for a parent.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
• The first loss was the most agonizing, with the Gauchos scoring to runs in the top of the ninth inning to break a 2-2 tie.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
• The night was agonizing, a swirl of numbers and maps, blue walls and red waves.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
• The point is that Adams saved a man from agonizing pain and bonded with Griffith in the process.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Carly said the wait in the noisy, bustling ED was agonizing.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 1 July 2021
• Then came the awful news of the shooting and the lockdown and agonizing hours of waiting.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• Watching the skiers geared up and ready to go only to have the race canceled at the last minute was agonizing.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
• The tumors often invaded the spine and the chest wall, and led to agonizing deaths.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Browns wanted him in the sixth round, and suddenly the agonizing wait was over.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• Just as agonizing was the wait for answers in Megan Tilman's death.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Losing stinks—and the what-ifs and could-have-beens in the postseason can be agonizing.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• The process of choosing the Person of the Year—who or what most influenced the events of the past 12 months, for good or for ill—can be agonizing.
  — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
• The agonizing losses toughened the Tigers for the new season.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2022
• This has been an agonizing turn of events for what was to be such a special weekend.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2023
• Matthias Gafni reports on what happened — and the agonizing wait for Brey and their son.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2021
• But under the pall of Covid-19, the defeats seem more agonizing.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• For Powell, his role as the cocky Hangman in the movie is likely to be a breakout for him, which made the wait more agonizing.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
• Then came the agonizing wait before the family learned the surgery had been a success.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Saying goodbye to a loved one on a cell phone held up by a nurse, agonizing.
  — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2021
• Then there was the matter of locking down the rights to spotlight the books, which was predictably agonizing, at least in the first season.
  — Jonathan Taylor, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• At the news conference, Wood said that the death of her daughter was agonizing.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Sometimes a husband and wife are on the line, the two of them in agonizing disagreement.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2020
• A week later, New York, in the midst of an agonizing losing streak, played a home game in Bridgeport.
  — David Waldstein Mimi D’autremont, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• On one end, there's the soldier forced to make morally agonizing choices in a war zone.
  — Steve Salee, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• While Kyiv and other cities away from the front are slowly coming back to life, the choice about whether to return for the long term is agonizing.
  — Marc Santora Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• Birth control These women went to the doctor for birth control and left in agonizing pain.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• Their son’s admission would send the McDonalds on a journey that forced them to make agonizing choices about their faith and family.
  — John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024