How to Use pang in a Sentence

pang

noun

• On being picked up he was found to be in the pangs of death.
  — James Karst, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• These pangs go away in about a day or two, just in time for the DOMS to peak.
  — Jack Izzo, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
• Not a good idea as a pang of vertigo stops me on my tracks.
  — Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
• In August Jack Dorsey was struck with a pang of remorse.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
• But the pangs of embarrassment and shame takes longer to go away.
  — Kui Mwai, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• So daily car commuters may love their rides, if with a pang of guilt.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 11 July 2019
• His poems knock the wind out of you, first with laughter, then with pangs of heartbreak.
  — Jacob Gedetsis, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
• O’Brien at first felt a pang of gratitude toward the RMV.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• After Bianca’s text, a pang of guilt stabbed its way through my grief.
  — Rachel Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The ache of it drives us to seek out social connection just as hunger pangs urge us to eat.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2020
• But now our state’s food is really going to make the rest of the country feel a hunger pang.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
• This could mean more weight loss, less hunger pangs, and more energy.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
• The veiled forms come forward and recede, as if pangs of pain, swelling to the surface only to fall back again.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• When his doctor called after the second CT and told him that the mass in his chest had grown, the man felt a pang of real fear.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The WhatsApp group for parents from Sydney was abuzz with pangs of despair and grief.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• After all, even die-hard monogamists tend to feel pangs of desire for others.
  — Tara Struyk, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2018
• New Year’s Day 2021 started with a pang of sadness for Aida Bueno.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• During the dark of winter this year in Indianapolis, Tim Williams felt the pangs of heartache.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Joe Reed has a twinkle in his eye as Tony, but also lets the audience see the weight on his mind and the pangs of regret.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2019
• But besides low white blood cell counts and some serious hunger pangs, they were all said to be in good health.
  — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
• Many felt the pang of conscience; some may have assumed that slavery would expire on its own.
  — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Still, Ford felt a pang when watching a load of burros leave the site, their ears visible through slats in the trailer.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
• Those who encountered her for the first time could feel pangs of sympathy.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Amid the celebration, Edmonds felt a pang of heartache.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• That's what Patches O'Houlihan could do, as well as chuck about 1,000 gym balls at your head and extremities and feel not a pang of shame or guilt.
  — Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
• The story goes that Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, asked for tea and a light snack in her room in the late afternoon to fight the midday hunger pangs.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• No need to risk missing your boarding call to satisfy your hunger pangs.
  — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Shiv, who leads the siblings’ charge, feels a pang of envy that their dad has kept her brother closer all season and moves to sweet-talk him in the room.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2021
• But before putting pen to paper Wednesday, there were a few nervous pangs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• My stomach felt empty, every growling pang a sign that my body was mourning the loss of carrying another human, and longed to be filled again.
  — Hetty Lui McKinnon, Bon Appétit, 19 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024