Words similar to agonizing

Example sentences for: agonizing

How can you use “agonizing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

One example, not the author's fault, is the comment, “The editors of the Random House Dictionary of 1966 decided, after considerable agonizing, not to insert any four-letter words.”
Many parents find his prescribed boot camp for babies agonizing, but they persist because they've been assured it's harmless.
Three decades after enduring one of the more agonizing rituals of adolescence, Chatterbox has no difficulty recognizing in Dr. Josh Spritzer--the vaguely caddish Beverly Hills orthodontist who seduces and abandons Adele August (played by Susan Sarandon in the just-released movie)--Chatterbox's own orthodontist.
It is said that the artist’s agonizing self-portrait can be made out in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew, to the right below Jesus.
At stationery shops you see people agonizing over whether they're really more Helvetica than Old Roman.