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.
• But the lengthy vigils can be agonizing for loved ones.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Revisiting your life’s most painful moment can be agonizing — and not just for you.
  — Donna Britt, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• For an agonizing half-hour, about 100 people could do nothing.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• After an agonizing 20-minute wait, that test came back positive.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2020
• The agonizing calculus of risk tolerance is an equation that each family must solve for itself.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• Navigating long-term health care for older adults is an agonizing challenge faced by millions of people across the U.S.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
• Ultimately, skin care is always subjective, and finding the right acne treatment can be an agonizing journey.
  — Marie Lodi, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• School leaders are now making agonizing decisions about opening their buildings while balancing very real health concerns.
  — Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• That has been an especially agonizing question for Palestinians in Gaza, ordered to and fro by Israel for more than a year.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024