Examples of agonizing in a Sentence
a long and agonizing battle with cancer
She made the agonizing decision to cancel the trip.
The agonizing wait was finally over.
He was in agonizing pain.
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Though Hunt Wynorski’s (Nick Zano) actual death happens off-screen, his pained panic at being trapped underwater by the suction pull of a public pool’s drain is an agonizing sequence, culminating in the gnarly visual of a blood-and-guts fountain.
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Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Because Voyager is so incredibly distant, the team faced an agonizing 23-hour wait for the radio signal to travel all the way back to Earth.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 15 May 2025
Projects in Limbo David Brown is a case study in the long and agonizing path to breaking ground on a Northwest solar farm.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 12 May 2025
Of the 11 films jointly selected to win the Grand Prix, the precursor to the Palme, that year, one, Billy Wilder’s agonizing The Lost Weekend, did, in fact, go on to win the Academy Award for best picture—but that feat wouldn’t be repeated for another decade.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 May 2025
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Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Because Voyager is so incredibly distant, the team faced an agonizing 23-hour wait for the radio signal to travel all the way back to Earth.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 15 May 2025
Projects in Limbo David Brown is a case study in the long and agonizing path to breaking ground on a Northwest solar farm.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 12 May 2025
Of the 11 films jointly selected to win the Grand Prix, the precursor to the Palme, that year, one, Billy Wilder’s agonizing The Lost Weekend, did, in fact, go on to win the Academy Award for best picture—but that feat wouldn’t be repeated for another decade.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 May 2025
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“Agonizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agonizing. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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