How to Use excruciating in a Sentence

excruciating

adjective

• I have an excruciating headache.
• They described their vacation in excruciating detail.
• In one long, excruciating take, Rhaenyra gets up to take the baby to the queen.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• The pain is excruciating when the knee pops out of place.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
• The trials of Jones and Trone in the 1990s were just excruciating.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• By the time my alarm went off, the sheer act of getting out of bed was all-around excruciating.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2022
• The loss of a child is one of the most excruciating pains a parent can endure.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
• This was twice as excruciating: bottom of the 18th inning and still no runs for the home team.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• For one thing, no one liked the movie much (the reviews were excruciating).
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 June 2024
• From the back of my neck to my lower back was just excruciating pain.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• My body aches, my pain is excruciating, and my bones are in agony.
  — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
• To be sure, this has been the most excruciating run-up to the Olympics of the career of Shiffrin, who’s 26 years old and competing in her third Games.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
• The Tigers are winless in their first six games and their latest loss may have been the most excruciating.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2021
• McKinley had tears in his eyes on the cart and was both distraught and in excruciating pain.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Because of that, the pain in her knees can be excruciating.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• For more than a year, life for many sriracha lovers has been an excruciating lesson in bland.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Even a slight chill still meant hours of excruciating pain.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• One bite from a bullet ant will leave you with 24 hours of excruciating pain.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The heat was excruciating, and for Updike, so was the outcome.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
• For younger fans like Gordon Sheach, 32, the wait has been just as excruciating.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• House of the Dragon's first season ended with a bang, and the wait to see the fallout has already been excruciating.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 12 Nov. 2022
• Texas A&M won for the 10th time in the last 11 meetings in the series, many of them in excruciating fashion for Arkansas fans.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2022
• Jurors in the case have heard, in excruciating detail, about how the victims died.
  — Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2022
• That means narrowing them down to the top 24 has been an excruciating task.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• Any slight breath of air across them is now excruciating.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Why even bother going through the excruciating pain of sawing your arm off in the first place?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The twins began to scream — the loud, excruciating, ear-shattering screams that would set any adult on red alert.
  — Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• The heartache that comes with the end of a relationship can feel excruciating.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• For most, the telltale sign is the sudden onset of excruciating pain radiating from the side (flank) to the groin or inner thigh, which comes and goes in waves.
  — Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024