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Example sentences for: agony

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

What the agony of Jesus on the cross is to Christians, the Holocaust is to Jews.
And he is surprised, as elegists always are, "that earth rejoices/ in the middle of our agony."
It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."
And I could not be more thrilled to hear back from readers since it only makes us better at our jobs, despite the agony of having to listen to the wackos that always accompany the good comments.
She curls herself up in her mother's lap and weeps with the agony of the empty.