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How to use agony in a sentence

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Thirdly, we should do what will go a long way to heal the agony of the Hindus.
She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered.
One can hardly feel the intensity of the agony that he is supposed to have endured in his final hours on earth.
In an agony of panic at this point, I beseeched her to tell me whether I needed medical attention.
The agony goes on for the parents of the tragic four-year-old as doctors remain baffled as to how he died.
This is where the bile and the agony and the rage of rock and roll was sharpened and honed.
Only by concerted action can we counter the sheer humanity of those who wish to prolong the agony of death.
It's actually quite relaxing, except for when she presses on an area near the big toe of my left foot which is total agony.
He was paralyzed by the agony, unable to move even as he felt the heavy tread of General Powell's feet as he came to stand above him.
Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
She also discovers that the pain of a gunshot wound to the chest can't begin to compare to the agony of a bikini wax.
It blew over him like a strong gust of wind, dispersing all illusions and bringing to light the unpleasant agony of truth.
Instead, Mowat was forced to lie at the side of the river in agony until the emergency services arrived.
A sharp twinge of agony shot up her left arm, reaching her shoulder and spreading through her entire chest.
She clutched her wrist that was twisted in an odd angle and was in extreme agony.
Her lips curled up in a sardonic twist that would have made a mortal shriek with agony.
The same blinding agony from the last bout of memories surfaces, only this time the pain is worse, and seems to last for hours.
Last year my back went into spasm and for a couple of weeks I was in mortal agony.
While we don't think she should take up an agony aunt column any time soon, her advice wasn't the worst in the world.
Then there was another thump at the gates, this time followed by a blood-curdling scream of terror and agony.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was a flash of red, a cloud of dust, three other toots of agony, and the thing was gone.
With the death of Zachariah begins the acute agony of Israel's dissolution.
On the right, a grand and costly crucifix looked down with life-like agony on the priests who were vesting in the sacristy.
His palsied tongue could not utter a single cry for the relief of his agony.
He may be in an agony of fear, but only by the subtlest changes could it be detected.
In agony they lay in silence and counted time by the repercussion of pain until the welcome dawn came with its new supply of hope.
For the sake of the agony of friends my noble patient accepted one severe dose of medicine and one ration of predigested food.
He lay back on the pillows again, with a smile that was twisted into a rictus of agony as a twinge wrung the injured limb.
It was a night of agony by thirst, of nerve-wracking bomb explosions, and of bayonet jabs in the dark.
Like the unchastened daughters of those ardent climes, she gave way to the wildest paroxysms of agony.
Each moment I fancied I could feel the pilot-fish touching me, and I almost screamed with agony.
The change is not present and the sensible way to have agony is not precautious.
But the slave had his moments alone, when the agony tore at his breast and rended him.
If I had been weak, I should have groaned aloud in the agony of renunciation.
Despite the agony, his gaze did not waver from the video set across the room.
To retreat at all is humiliation, but to retreat as this luckless army did was agony.
Yudushka's agony commenced when the resources of loquaciousness, in which he had so freely indulged, began to give out.
No drop of water might cool his lips, no luscious fruit might soothe his agony.
It must be agonising to you, and there would be dishonour as well as pain to me, in witnessing that agony.
It was a shriek as of one in the maddest agony, and lasted for some seconds.
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