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Example sentences for: agony

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Rocker Stevie Nicks solved the wandering implant problem by having her silicone breast implants removed and keeping them in her freezer "to remind me of the agony," according to the Globe . And the Enquirer reports that singer Tina Turner's breast implants "drifted so far apart she lost her cleavage."
Buying shoes demands sizable chunks of time and money, and the eventual decision generates more existential agony about their looks than about their fit.
He's playing the metaphor--the toothache as existential agony.
And the Times is aware of how sadly routine such events have become, referring to the episode's "familiar agony," and reporting that "fifteen suicide bombers have struck in Israel over the last three and a half years, killing at least 140 people and wounding hundreds."
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."