How to Use agony in a Sentence

agony

noun

• It was agony to watch him suffer like that.
• The medicine relieves the agony of muscle cramps very quickly.
• She was in terrible agony after breaking her leg.
• That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.
  — Annika Neklason, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• The massacre took only minutes, but the agony for families had just begun.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• At the root of her empathy and agony is the knowledge that parents cannot always protect their children.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• He has been dogged by internal agony, the result of being stuck for years inside a prison that could turn violent in a second.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 17 May 2021
• Both have everything to do with Woods’ victory. Ecstasy and agony.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
• Soon, there was some minor surgery, which led to major surgery on the other knee, which led to his usual thrill of victory being replaced by the agony of getting the stitches out.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• Her story became the focus of almost every main news outlet around the country, and people watched in agony for two days as rescuers attempted to save the toddler.
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Energy After more than six years of agony, the energy industry is recovering.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• They have been swept up in the grand movements of history in Tolstoy’s War and Peace and overwhelmed by the bright and bitter agony of love in the epic volumes of Proust.
  — Jeremy Tate, National Review, 6 May 2021
• Or, the Fed could take the low road and skirt the agony of a hard times.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021
• Here, the names of the dead can be spoken and the agony of loss can be shown.
  — Matt Sedensky, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• That the defeat came at the hands of Japan adds to the agony for Chinese fans.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• The agony is worth it, because that’s how ideas are born.
  — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• The next day, the agony of not knowing ended, but with the news came more heartache.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
• Jo, get out of there now and save yourself years of agony.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2024
• Allie—her body a flaming pyre of agony—rolled off the bed and fell to the floor.
  — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• The nanny didn’t leave for a couple of months, which was agony for me.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2022
• There was no pressure, no stress, no agony—just the need for speed.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 21 Dec. 2021
• May God bring them comfort in this hour of their agony.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 30 Apr. 2022
• And that's the parents, the parents who raised the child, the parents who have seen that child go through agony.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The United States team and its fans erupted in joy; Pulisic was in agony.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• The lessons have come wrapped in triumph, agony and with so much in between.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
• Friends and relatives of those trapped in Pokrovsky were in agony.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022
• In the back, a man in German uniform, groaning in agony.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• Plus, there’s the fact that England fans are gluttons for the agony of defeat.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• The ‘kill list’ Tasha and Dakota Adams have watched with amazement and agony as the 2024 presidential campaign has unfolded.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
• His role lies in gothic territory that could simply play as camp, but Thaxton gives it real ache and agony.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024