Example sentences for: agonizing

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

  • Authentic Texan Matthew McConaughey on the cusp of his hunkdom dies an agonizing newsstand death, but recent Texas transplant Sandra Bullock is huge.

  • At stationery shops you see people agonizing over whether they're really more Helvetica than Old Roman.

  • Even if the site asked the question more precisely--say, by asking users if they prefer government-managed savings or private savings--it would reduce an issue of agonizing actuarial detail to a flippant one-liner.

  • Graham's aptly named book crosscuts between the engrossing social history of her life and times--populated by the likes of Marie Curie, Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Mann, Bernard Baruch, Walter Lippmann, FDR, Truman Capote, LBJ, Jessica Mitford, Scotty Reston, Emperor Hirohito, Bill and Babe Paley, and Richard Nixon--and her agonizing personal history.

  • There was no agonizing whatsoever on the part of the editors: every editor associated with the book wanted those words in.


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