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Sentence Examples In this case, the rapid inhalations are preceded by the violent throes of the heart to propel the carbonized blood from the overworked tissues. Although oil's price increases may peak in the short-term, the global energy industry is in the throes of a structural transformation. Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation. In its final throes the decaying rock is whittled down into curious rounded shapes standing in a line, like a queue of shrouded figures. For the last week or more, Taiwan has been in the throes of the early stages of a major, perhaps a watershed, political scandal. Our friend is in the throes of producing an inspiration-filled Advent calendar and asked us to contribute something. They eventually go on to have the baby, and two more children, but years later, deep in the throes of her addiction, Isa does the unthinkable. As one who has shot her mouth off while in the throes of a mental breakdown, I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that truthfully. Regular readers will know I was deep in the throes of depression, both seasonal and related to other sources. Only in 1930-31 did it become apparent that the world was in the throes of a prolonged and deep depression. Once the world's fourth largest lake, the mighty Aral Sea is now in its death throes. And in the continuing fiasco of the new parliament building, I see the death throes of another proud Scottish archetype. Bolli's vocal trick is to stand in another room yowling as if in her death throes. Unable to bear the death throes of her love affair, she becomes by turns desperate and tenacious, acting out with unbridled fury. This was the era when Cubism was in its birth throes, when Picasso and Braque were embarking on an artistic revolution. What is key to the current world, Wallerstein argues, is that we are now witnessing the death throes of the world system itself. The video ends with the hanging of the Preacher, the final shot showing his legs twitching in their death throes. Perhaps what is said here does just represent the death throes of an ideology whose day is done. A large man deep in the throes of late middle age appears in the living room. They will become drug addicts in the throes of being involved in this industry. Show More Sentences Exports to the US, which was already in the throes of a slowdown, fell particularly sharply. An apparently liberated professional woman is caught in the throes of a struggle for empowerment. The following lines may have been written in the throes of delirium, but this is how it sounded to me. The country would appear to be in the throes of what criminologists might call mild moral panic. And even when she was in the throes of chemotherapy Brigette wouldn't let her illness get the better of her. But if anyone has an excuse to be in the throes of depression it's Harwell. I hear that our great Republic is in the throes of what is being called the Great Depression. Once more, the country is caught in the throes of yet another round of chaotic activity at the university. The harshness of these practices would suggest that we are in the throes of an epidemic of school violence. He embraces his newfound friend in the throes of passion and turns to look at me, his eyes full of mirth. One minute we can be talking about something completely unrelated to the subject and the next we're fully in the throes of it all. But the evocation of a post-WWI society in the throes of great change is engrossing and entertaining. The Royal Bank was in the throes of negotiating a new lease for a planned 300,000 sq ft replacement building. About six years ago I holidayed at the Barrier at a place called Paradise Park, run by a couple in the throes of divorce. Rich people in the throes of divorce are prone to giving away money to relatives and friends or treating themselves to a new house or yacht. Their performance is so over the top they look like they are in the throes of a hallucinogenic trip. In the nest a newborn birdling stands awkwardly with its beak open wide, straining in the throes of infancy. And to be able to enjoy Sonny's world, trapped in the throes of a twilight zone, it is best to do so without comparing it to one's own world. I prefer still, silent throes of ecstasy to jabbing hands and slow-motion seizures. Why is it that London is in the throes of a simultaneous and quite unwonted dim sum explosion? Show More Sentences A pulsar is a rotating neutron star, a remnant of the explosive death throes of a star at least eight times as massive as our own sun. A person who is in the throes of an addiction is hardly qualified to make that decision. Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth. Her relationships assume other proportions even as the country goes through the throes of upheaval. By contrast, ectoplasm photographs depict a human medium in the throes of violent struggle with an invisible entity. And they accepted the challenge exultantly, entered the battle ecstatically and fought as though in throes of joy. Sometimes, we are told, he would wear a red wafer upon his brow, as a signal that he was enduring the throes of literary composition and expected forbearance and consideration. It's not all useless back surgery and unnecessary appendectomies and needlessly prolonging Grandma's death throes. Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order. I was in the early throes of a spell of misanthropic hermitism. Asking the Frenchman to begin his coaching career at a high-profile club in the throes of decline was the boardroom equivalent of a hospital pass. For those who know her primarily as the earnest TV-drama doctor, her uninhibited sexiness when in the throes of ghostly passion comes as quite a surprise. Located in the dusty backwater of Datong, a provincial city in northeast China, the movie depicts a global village in the throes of millennial malaise. You can't expect the average couch potato to see the irony in the fact that a TV pathologist was being used to promote a company in its death throes. If the first world war forged Hitler's character and politics, it was the death throes of the French empire in Algiers that made Le Pen the man he is today. Independent cinema in its various guises isn't in its death throes yet. Truth be told, there is no one better at capturing the agony and alarm of a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown than Moore. This is the narration by someone who is undergoing death throes. They capture the coltish youth of two 16-year-olds in the throes of first love, but somehow missing is the fever of a relationship that spirals toward death. Across the country, high school seniors are in the throes of completing college applications before looming deadlines. Show More Sentences It warns us in advance when starving, flyblown African children are about to be pictured in their death throes as we tuck into tea-time plates groaning with fresh food. In the throes of its convulsive Cultural Revolution, with exactly one ambassador permitted overseas, Beijing was totally isolated. The Holy land of India was in the throes of spiritual darkness. In the throes of cutback after cutback, the content being presented is suffering. I am in the throes of the January blahs, that seasonal depression that is brought on every year at this time by intense cold and lack of sunlight. It is nonjudgmental, and acknowledges that we are in the throes of a transition. The yardbirds are in the throes of rumour-induced psychosis after being gripped by speculation that our entire unit is about to be transported to a faraway place. Lost in the throes of passion, they keep scuttling onto the court. I was not behaving very sensibly, but nowhere had I experienced such a nauseating attitude to girls as in the last throes of Franco's sick and dying Spain. While the narrator clearly describes a room in the throes of chaos brought on by an influx of wounded soldiers, she also curiously depopulates the room of individual men. Florence, meanwhile, is in the throes of a religious revival led by the Dominican friar who thunders against vice, female luxuries, and male effeminacy. The boy started to scream, not a yell of pain but a high-pitched shriek of panic that reminded me of a rabbit's death throes, which reminded me that I was hungry. One month later, lobstermen in Western Long Island Sound began to report sightings of gravid female lobsters dying in the throes of abortive molts. Have you seen my two-year-old in the throes of blissful train play? In addition, he argues insightfully that Hebrews's theology is directed towards a community in the throes of social distress. With dramatic insight he captured for all time the death throes of a great city. As part of its death throes, the printer made a grinding sound and then never worked again. We won't be able to meet next week as we will be in the throes of moving offices. Perhaps the week after will be better. I am not so keen on 'White Feather' which looks like it has had a good dose of paraquat and is in the final throes of death. We're in the throes of an epidemic of a dangerous new strain of gonorrhoea that's become resistant to practically all antibiotics. Show More Sentences And suddenly you were in the throes of both creation and destruction. Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one. From Argentina, already in the throes of its own dirty war against leftists, Busto requested and was granted political asylum in Sweden. Meanwhile his frau made loud mewling and scratching noises in the hallway beyond, deep in the throes of advanced galeanthropy. There are mynahs, crows, pigeons, hud huds either lying dead on the grass or in their final death throes. Techies were the most juvenile, but other wealthy men, in the full throes of boomeritis, also acted like kids in a candy store. In the throes of insatiable envy, they bullied their husbands into becoming effete cogs, Whyte's Organization Men. The people who advocated opting out, cried foul and took their ball home and were responsible for involving their grandchildren in the throes of war? The exercise comprises of the 10 Malians but that Mali had earlier evacuated its citizens from CAR, which had been in the throes of internecine violence since last year. Uncle Roger, in his death throes, made a sound and reached outward. The nursingwoman answered him and said that that woman was in throes now full three days and that it would be a hard birth unneth to bear but that now in a little it would be. Then and now Back in 1981 when I wrote the first article on this subject, Naples was in the throes of a boom in the use of English in local facias and tradenames. Examples from Classical Literature Within forty-eight hours he was in the throes of an attack of double pneumonia. So, in the first throes of her despair, Mrs. Wood wrote those eight not maturely considered pages to the great-aunt. But he was busy with his new story, in the throes of nympholepsy, seeing visions, hearing voices. There he sat, all alone, doubling himself up and writhing this way and that, in the throes of unappeasable laughter. There were throes of love within her, of aspiration, of an ineffable delight in being. The sun which had neared the horizon was dying in throes of crimson and gamboge. She covered her face, and rocked to and fro like one in the throes of a deep suffering. And everywhere was the shouting and hurry as of a nation in the throes of war. The newly-arrived Haviland, in the throes of this emotion, looks about him. By this time my teeth were clenched as if in the throes of lockjaw. The time when the Moors were in the throes of civil war was favorable. He had two years longer to serve, but two years were too long for him in the throes of homesickness. For Cathie and Bob Abernethy, the romance is still as fresh as they day they met while Europe was in the throes of the Second World War. Some 6,000 homes were evacuated as 21 large fires burned in the bone-dry western US state, which is in the throes of a historic drought. In the throes of desperation, they signed Yankees cast-off Steve Karsay to a minor-league contract. He was beset by ideas and in the throes of one of his ideas was uncontrollable. So I was up and out of the town while as yet most of the inhabitants were in the throes of getting up. Pensive here I sat Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes. Philippe fortunately was not touched, but Bichette, mortally wounded, was struggling in the throes of death. Gasping as though in the throes of strangulation the fellow pitched forward at Tarzan's feet. Show More Sentences The throes of Russian resurrection will be long and painful. The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes. We're in the final throes of it right now, and we're very excited,'' said Duke Blackwood, executive director of the library, as he led a tour Thursday of the project site. In the 1970s when China was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, Macao was both a a path and destination for many Chinese seeking to leave the Mainland. When I was in the sleep-deprived chaotic throes of first-time motherhood and she took a call from me, she 'just knew' I was having a bad day despite my breeziness. But in the last throes of summer, the traditional yellow man and deep red of locally picked dulse is always enough to add a splash of colour to the festivities in Ballycastle. Find more words! 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